Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.

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.

If you open your mind more than you open your mouth, you will open your world more than you open your doubt.

My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world.

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

It's lovely to get to say hello to people you've always admired from afar, but the fun really starts out front with people going commando whilst wearing daring mud suits.

I know how to move between political camps. When everyone in the world hated (Libyan leader Moammar) Gadhafi, I paid him an official visit. It caused an uproar - Lula's visiting the devil!

At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.

If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.

Sound policy is never at variance with substantial justice.

No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.

Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution.