I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The principal did not like the fact that the teachers would take my side. I always left an impression when I left the school - not for who I was but for what I did there.
I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.
We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was.
You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.
I get an awful lot of people coming up and saying they went to school with me. There must have been 80,000 pupils at that school!
They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.
I always wanted to be a teacher.
Most of the time, people think they went to high school with me.
I've always been comfortable with people who run things, whether it was the principal of my high school or the president of the university.