Learning, without any opportunities to share what we've learned, is a little like cooking for ourselves; we do it, but we probably won't do it as well.

Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make a difference.

School improvement is not a mystery. Incremental, even dramatic improvement is not only possible but probable under the right conditions.

When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn learning itself - by years.

In a healthy system, there is no blame.

Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance.

Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance - almost any sort of spiritual guidance.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Aspen is the life to live, see how much there is to give. See how strongly you believe, see how much you may receive.

If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing.

Whenever we encounter another person in love, we learn something new about God.

Some of us just have to work harder to stay in the game.

All motion in this universe is in the form of waves, successively rising and falling.

Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.