Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make a difference.

School improvement is not a mystery. Incremental, even dramatic improvement is not only possible but probable under the right conditions.

Learning, without any opportunities to share what we've learned, is a little like cooking for ourselves; we do it, but we probably won't do it as well.

When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn learning itself - by years.

In a healthy system, there is no blame.

Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance.

He stirred my soul in the most subtle way and the story between us wrote itself.

Excellence in any pursuit is the late ripe fruit of toil.

I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up

Just remember... it doesn't matter how long you have known each other.. all that matters is that he has kept you smiling from day one

Come a crisis, we want other people.

One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.

Yes, there is a ton of information on the web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile.

The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently.

My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.

In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.