Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

A passion for learning...isn't something you have to inspire with; it's something you have to keep from extinguishing.

It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.

Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.

Teaching is listening, learning is talking

If you ask me, taking on risk and being more daring is a real important part of creativity.

Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so.

Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.

Whom the gods love dies young

God has given you a gift, why not open it?!

FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's, Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!

War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.

I watch my daughter wanting to be like other kids and getting upset that she's not. But I always try and instill in her the idea that she's perfect as she is.

I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite

I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

All Italians are plunderers.

God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?