When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.

I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.

All the things that are in the past are in the past.

There's no sustenance in the past.

The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.

[Many Arkansas schools have seen an influx of students in the past two weeks after thousands of people were forced to flee the New Orleans and the Gulf Coast areas because of the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina. The AAA has ruled that all evacuees from those areas transferring into Arkansas schools will be immediately eligible.] It’s about a page worth of paperwork, ... We want to make it as simple for them as possible. We just want to know who they are and where they are going to be.