Now we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed to put students first so that America can compete that teachers don't teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.

There is a common theme though in the stories I have told which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

For my own family I would always choose the makeshift surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth.

The faith I was born into formed me.

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value.

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.

I am a passionate traveler and from the time I was a child travel formed me as much as my formal education.

I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.