Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.

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"!

How can it be wrong? Love picks the right path, not the one of least resistance.

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.

So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

My introduction to photography and a lot of how I developed aesthetically was through '50s and early-'60s fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.

I can’t undo the past. But in the future, I will gladly lay my life down for you, brother. (Styxx)