The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called “truth.” – Dan Rather
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate “apparently ordinary” people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people. – K. Patricia Cross
It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future. – Thomas Sankara
I didnt appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. Its never good to add to anybody elses suffering. Its an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of – dealing with dignity. – Margaret Cho
