"Life is a word problem."

"Life is hard...get a helmet!"

"Mathematics is not a spectator sport!"
  

"Be the author of your learning"

"It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well." Discours de la Méthode

"We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future--you create the future. The future is created through hard work." Jaime Escalante