Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.

The day that I spearheaded the passage of America Fast Forward... the newspaper of record did not put it in the newspaper; what they put was my breakup with my ex-girlfriend. I took umbrage with that. A great newspaper ought to be printing things that people care about, issues that people care about.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

We love what we love, and shared fandoms bring people of all ages and backgrounds into one great tribe.

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.

One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

Great things are won by great dangers.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

We grow small trying to be great.

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.