Senor Chang

"I've never been wrong, just occasionally misunderstood."

"You should all worship at the altar of my superiority."

"I'm not racist, I'm a professor. Well, I'm both, but the first one doesn't count."

"You're going to have to learn Spanish eventually. Probably not from me, but eventually."

"I once was lost, but now I am found. And I found a new way to teach."

"Life is like conjugating verbs - it's all about tense and timing."

"Success is 10% inspiration and 90% not getting caught."

"Love is a Spanish word, which means I probably don't understand it."

"The only constant in this world is my disappointment in my students."

"Wisdom comes from knowing when to speak Spanish and when to speak nonsense."

"Friendship is like a language - you either speak it or you don't."

"Happiness is a warm gun and a classroom full of afraid students."

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. I learned that from Wayne Gretzky."

"Time is money, and I'm broke, so apparently I have no time."

"Fear is just Spanish for... no, fear is fear in every language."

"Hope is what gets you through Monday morning staff meetings."

"Courage is required to teach teenagers who don't care about Spanish."

"Change is inevitable, unlike my students' test scores."

"Knowledge without action is just pretending you know things - which I do."

"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you uncomfortable."

"Freedom is not having to explain yourself to anyone. I failed at that."

"Peace is what I crave but never achieve in my classroom."

"Nature is beautiful, like the Spanish language, which I butcher daily."

"Art imitates life, and my life is a tragedy in three acts."

"Science is just Spanish with numbers instead of words."

"Music soothes the savage beast, but not my savage students."

"Faith is believing in something you can't see, like my credibility."

"Leadership is about making decisions, usually terrible ones."

"Work is what we do to avoid thinking about our failures."

"Dreams are just thoughts that happened when you fell asleep grading papers."