Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.

Never explain yourself to people, just make them feel you.

All that glitters is not hovery.

I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.

It can be a bit annoying if another actor is trying to talk to the director and the wife is sitting on his lap.

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice

I felt really strongly about this script [ Everybody Loves Somebody] because, like you said, it's a very specific way of life.

You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you.

I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one.