Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.

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"!

Too many people miss out on real love because they're too busy waiting for the ONE to show up

...for everytime I see the sky I'm aware of belonging to the universe than to just one corner of the earth.

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

Since 1998, the Administration has begun to upgrade counterintelligence and security at U.S. weapons labs.

The things which cannot be adequately represented by words are more important than those which can.

Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden.

Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another.

I'm not possessive, I'm caring... Once you realize a person doesn't want that much care, you automatically back off.

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.

I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference.