If you attempt to implement reforms but fail to engage the culture of a school, nothing will change.

There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning?

Salvation for our educational ills... will have to come from within an educational community willing to say we have met the enemy and it is us.

Realize that your gift does not only belong to you

Take life a little more gladly, Every disappointment a little more lightly, Every heartache a little more positively, And you have a little more days to live.

True sorrow is as rare as true love.

Near the land of the convertible moon

I love you, Daisy. I love you so much I hurt.

Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.

But she did love him. I believe it. I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention.

If there's no magic of cinema, you only have the plain imagery of television. We are moving more and more towards a world devoid of meaningful experiences. We're going to the surface.

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.