A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old.

Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.

The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.

The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.

Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

Hay menos tiempo que lugar, no obstante, hay lugares que duran un minuto y para cierto tiempo no ha lugar.

No fairy godmother had ever spent time helping a poor and humble milk maid who was destined to die even poorer and humbler.

You don't need a prophet to tell you to eat.

It was the kind of storm that suggests the whole sky has swallowed a diuretic.

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps.

I want to inspire people to become their higher selves, their best selves.

Build therefore your own world.

I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a way to mend it.

The Christian's life should put his minister's sermon in print.