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I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.

Teaching is so rewarding because when you see the look on student's faces when they get it, when you're able to excite them about what you're excited about; it's so rewarding, and it's so much fun.

Teaching is really very, very important. I always tell my students that you should find an opportunity to teach. When you teach others, you teach yourself.

Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it's also an incredible stimulus. And a reprieve, in a way. When you're trying to work on something and it's not going anywhere, you can go to school and there's a two-and-a-half-hour block of time in which you can accomplish something.

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.

We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.

You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.