Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.

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.

WHE YOU FOCUS ON HEALING AND OVERCOME A TRAGEDY OR CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE, YOU BECOME A SURVIVOR, NOT A VICTIM ANYMORE.

I learned really to practice mustard seed faith and positive thinking and remarkable things happened.

My audience are the same people who bought my albums years ago. These people are now married, with their own homes, their own families. If I'm in concert, I get people now who bring their kids.

Don't put labels on people. See them as people who Christ died for.

Stop leaving and you will arrive, Stop searching and you will see, Stop running away and you will be found.

When anybody tells you something about writing, somebody will tell you something completely different and they will also be right

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

What I would tell young players is that as you get older, the best thing you can do is try to have other interests and have opportunities.

It's hot on my block, somebody turn the fan on I've been paid, I'm just tryin to turn my mans on.

Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.