By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.

Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.

It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart.

You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.

The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better

If you are not prepared to resign or be fired for what you believe in, then you are not a worker, let alone a professional. You are a slave.

Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture.

Kids make their mark in life by doing what they can do, not what they can't... School is important, but life is more important. Being happy is using your skills productively, no matter what they are.

All human beings have all of the intelligences. But we differ, for both genetic and experiential reasons, in our profile of intelligences at any moment.

Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

The man raised his glass, 'To you!'Can't you think of a wittier t

What they say doesn't matter because it can be lies, but it's what they do that matters because it always speaks truth.

Meet Logan Jackson, smug, self-entitled, proud, arrogant, trust-fund brat.

Victorious. I feel that is why I did all the training, why I make the sacrifices, that is why I got into the shape I am in. I feel I have won, that's millions more coming my way, I feel great.

The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.

Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life.

Paul Ryan's just a really, deeply evil little creature. But he's not little; he's actually quite tall, I'm sorry to see. I'm always sorry when really bad guys are tall.

What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?

I spend my own money, not other people's money.

Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.