"High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in."

"I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there."

"You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff."

"I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road."

"When ambition meets humility, we find that every step forward is a victory over stagnation."

"You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure."

"The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it."

"Every sunset is a reminder that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."