Learning happens when someone wants to learn, not when someone wants to teach.

Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.

In the end all we have...are stories and methods of finding and using those stories.

Interest is a terrible thing to waste.

Schools in the future will be judged less because of the credentials that they bestow, and more because of the experiences that they offer.

Learning is about failure and recovery from failure.

Everything they teach in school is oriented so that they can test it to show that you know it, instead of taking note of the obvious, which is that people learn by doing what people want to do.

Education in a deepest sense has always been about doing rather than about knowing.

Our choices in life are made according to our sense of our own worth.

It is like we are having a harvest of destruction in our continent.

We both have a lot of growing-up to do... A lot of the world to see & figure out on our own." -- Leo

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

Do what you wanna do. Really follow your dreams. Fail as many times as you can because youll only get better.

We're born to shimmer, we're born to shine We're born to radiate We're born to live, we're born to love We're born to never hate.

As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion.

Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.

I've had some pretty stimulating conversations about where we are politically as a result of this movie [Snowden], but then there are a lot of questions just about that sensationalism of it.