The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth

Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.

The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.

The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.

Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

you create your world with your thoughts

Each individual is born into life as a creation from the source, and as an inhabitant and visitor to this planet.

The "I love you"s are exchanged excessively under our roof. Cancer teaches you how important and critical that is.

If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.

Focus on the journey, not on arriving at a certain destination.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

People will forgive anything but beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable.

Every great man is unique.

I think writing is really a process of communication. . . . It's the sense of being in contact with people who are part of a particular audience that really makes a difference to me in writing.

When you love someone, you treat them well.