A passion for learning...isn't something you have to inspire with; it's something you have to keep from extinguishing.

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.

Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.

Teaching is listening, learning is talking

If you ask me, taking on risk and being more daring is a real important part of creativity.

Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiouslythree old owls on a chest of drawerswere screwingthe daughter of the doctor.But then the mother called them, colorless green ideas slepp furiously.

A moment's thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.

With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits.

Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.

One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

When you have a stomach ache you don't tell your stomach to go away.

You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.

It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.