The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.

The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.

Art is literacy of the heart

The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the kinds of fish we catch.

The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.

All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

Schools are not about enabling children to have a living but about children being able to have a life.

The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.

The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

Real education is never acquisition of knowledge but training of character.

Our character isn’t defined by the battles we win or lose, but by the battles we dare to fight.

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

In order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.

Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would've wanted to play 10 years ago, I don't want to play now.

I love Chicago. I know Chicago. And Chicago is a great city. It can be a great city. It can't be a great city if people are shot walking down the street for a loaf of bread.

Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.

President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.

They don't know you're secretly a badass?