In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it!

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"!

Familial betrayal is, to me, the most heartbreaking kind - because if you can't trust your family to love you and protect you, who can you really trust?

I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile.

I think my whole living in vain involves me. I know that the biggest help for me is to help someone else in so many different ways.

Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.

Everyone's doing the best they can with the tools they were given.

Happiness is present time, it has nothing to do with the future.

I do less-fanciful reality. I celebrate the fat, the ugly, the women who can't get guys. I'm not trying to entertain you; I'm trying to make you passionate.

I'm pleased the administration is endorsing the need for legislation dealing with the chemical sector. In the past, the administration's position has been ambiguous.

God is more interested in developing your character than keeping you comfortable.

Gender-based violence is one of the most pervasive and yet least-recognized human rights abuses in the world.