Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.

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.

Why are they going to disappear him?'I don't know.'It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.

But plants grow again, " She murmured, focusing on the verdant beauty around her. "They put down new roots, create room for themselves in foreign soil.

When I look in the mirror, I see someone who will accomplish amazing things

Arrogance, disrespect and demand have higher price.Kindness, respect and tact give better prize.

One who be armed with positive force energy may repell negative daggers, walk through the wilderness - and live to tell it.

The beauty of a new day can only be seen through the mental eye of one who understands that everyday is full of limitless opportunities and possibilities.

Philosophy has a fine saying for everything - for Death it has an entire set.

When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you... Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best.

Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum.

I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual’s curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it.