These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.

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.

I know you think I'm crazy. Maybe that's because I am. About life, about this moment, about you.

make only your trust in God

The unavoidable has touched the life of every human being on the face of the earth. Some have rebounded, others have given up--but all of us have felt the wings of tragedy brushing against us.

Let me be dressed fine as I will Flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.

There is nothing more dangerous than security.

I'm old school. I'm not the fastest guy or the quickest guy.

Bullhorns are overrated: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value.

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.