To be creative you actually have to do something.

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.

Uttering foul words, while there are the sweetest of words, is like going for the unripe fruits while there are a lot of ripe ones.

Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process

Say what's in your heart, Annie.''You're in my heart, Samuel.

A rainbow looks good because the colours demonstrate restrain. Otherwise it would be an ugly blob.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

The harder you look, the harder you look.

In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.

... you cannot make a man clean [simply] by washing his shirt.