Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.

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.

When we hear the bird sing, it hears only how to love. (Quand on entend l'oiseau chanter, - Lui n'entend que comment aimer.)

Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.

If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.

Women's particular experiences continue to shape not just their points of view but their actions, in the United States and around the world.

Stress is what feeds your cancer. Stress is what gives you cancer and then there's the paparazzi giving you stress.

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

When I sleep every night, what am I called or not called? And when I wake, who am I if I was not I while I slept?

The time eras that I really like are more on '50s and '60s.

I was all of these women. I've been a young mom; I've been a divorcée; I've been a single mom. I've been the working mom versus the nonworking mom.

In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve.