"Life is not a spelling bee, where no matter how many words you have gotten right, if you make one mistake you are disqualified. Life is more like a baseball season, where even the best team loses one-third of its games and even the worst team has its days of brilliance."
—Harold Kushner
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
—Aristotle
“The question is not, 'Is it possible to educate all children well?' but rather, 'Do we want to do it badly enough?'.
—Deborah Meier
“The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.”
—John Schaar
"We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough."
—Harold Kushner
“Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.”
—Mark Twain
“Let (young people) remember that there is a meaning beyond absurdity. Let them be sure that every deed counts, that every word has power, that we can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all the absurdities and all the frustrations and all the disappointments, and, above all, let them remember to build a life as if it were a work of art.”
—Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
—Beverly Sills
"I can tell you, 20 years of pro sports, endurance sports, from triathlons to cycling, all of the Tours, even the worst days on the Tours, nothing was as hard as that and nothing left me feeling the way I feel now, in terms of just sheer fatigue and soreness ... That was without a doubt the hardest physical thing I've ever done."
—Lance Armstrong, 7-time Tour de France champion
on 11/5/06 (after running his first marathon)
"Do your job. Be nice to kids."
—Bill Dunn, former AHS principal
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