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.

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 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.

The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.

I come from a rural state. People drive 50, 100 miles to and from work every single day. That is true all over America.

President Obama has admitted that Medicare is on an unsustainable course and that no amount of tax increases can fix it.

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season.

Almost every part of the mile is tactically important: you can never let down, never stop thinking, and you can be beaten at almost any point. I suppose you could say it is like life.

A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.

When you innovate, the jobs can't go overseas because other countries haven't figured out how to do it yet.

Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is!

I think a lot of becoming an entrepreneur is something which people have to learn just from getting out there and giving it a go, and having to learn the art of survival.

You started like a saint and now you've finished like a thief