It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

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"!

Most of us try to just live with what society tells us is important

The absence of a message sometimes is a presence of one.

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

In the old, sin contaminates. In the new, righteousness contaminates. It's a different day.

I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.

But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build upon.

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.