If all our children learn to do is read, they will not be literate.

We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.

We must prepare students for a future we can neither describe nor predict.

Challenging schools to treat their students as customers with a choice, instead of inmates serving time.

We want our students to be the students we want to teach.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

Smartass Disciple: Master, why heaven is up there and hell is down there ?Master of Stupidity: If otherwise, it wouldn't be celebrated as ascension day.

..A hawk soared over our carriage, letting out a high, piercing cry of defiance, and I wanted to jump out of the window and fly with it

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.

Wars don't bring lasting peace, only lasting death.

Most of the world around you doesn't read the Bible. So... God gives the world a living epistle- you.

You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers.

Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.

To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.