Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.

One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.

There is no algorithm for creativity.

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.

Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

He fancied himself on his humanity towards animals, as so many people do who are inhuman to their fellow men...

[Religion is] a fantasy [and is] completely empty of any explanatory content. It is also evil.

I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

If you want to make real money, do something that scares the crap out of 99% of the population, and only one person in a couple of hundred is physically capable of.

It is consciousness that sets all limits of life, if there are any limits.

I found the material that people hated the most and used the most. So, I was going and try and see if I could play with it sculpturally.

I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years

Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire.