Teaching is listening, learning is talking

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

A passion for learning...isn't something you have to inspire with; it's something you have to keep from extinguishing.

It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.

Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.

If you ask me, taking on risk and being more daring is a real important part of creativity.

Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so.

It means that I like you for you and you should like you for you.

American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

I really believe there's more honesty in one live show than there may be in my whole output.

I like the feeling of being dominated

To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.

It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.

I have a strong will to love you for eternity.

I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving.