All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.

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.

How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!

We will paste upon the curled pages wordsLike charming and romantic and sentimentalForgetting that charming is witchcraftRomantic is loveAnd sentiment is what makes us human

Don't make me come down there. - God

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

Deep downy upholstery is absolutely what I've always been about.

I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling.

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

That cup of tea is definately not down your alley

Looking back on my career, I think I've been extremely fortunate to be in the right place at the right time in order to have the influence that I did.

Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.