Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice.

Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.

In the best classrooms, grades are only one of many types of feedback provided to students.

Vision without implementation is counterproductive.

The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity.

Deep and sustainable change...requires changes in behavior among those who do not welcome the change.

One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice.

Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness.

No one knows what you have been through or what your pretty little eyes have seen, but I can reassure you ~ whatever you have conquered, it shines through your mind.

Listening ears are soothing for a heart that needs peace.

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.

Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose . . . . Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.

I represent boxing. I represent the old school. That's me.

I might not be as successful as you are today, but tomorrow, next month, next year, or five years from now will be another story.

The tone of every book is slightly different; there's a music that each has that is distinct from all the others.

My favorite brand I have ever artistically collaborated, entertained, and supported over the years is the huge house that Coco Chanel built: Chanel.

Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.