Accepting both the opportunity and the responsibility evokes a great deal of humility.

In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.

Assessment is today's means of modifying tomorrow's instruction.

Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.

A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.

The central job of schools is to maximize the capacity of each students.

As educators we need to understand that there is no finish line in our work.

It is not so important to have all the answers as to be hungry for them.

Plan to be better today, but don't ever plan to be finished

Interest refers to student’s affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill.

The high stakes test culture runs almost totally counter to what we know about how people learn. It causes us to engage in professional malpractice on a regular basis.

Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul.

Pray that I may be very little in my own eyes, and not rob my dear Master of any part of his glory.

Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when it thinks you're ready.

I think that I've had a very strange life.

I, also, found the opportunity to work with the actors extremely gratifying and rewarding.

I like bossy girls. I don't like girls who just do whatever they think you want them to do, and follow you around trying to please you all the time.

Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.

I'm pretty much able to play any style. I'm not here to demand 40 or 50 shots. But I would like 30.

I've always been pretty tough in that way, where if you tell me I can't do something, I will prove you wrong.