Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.

There is no algorithm for creativity.

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.

Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

Tiddlywinks, tiddlywinks, I want to play tiddlywinks, " chanted Ramona, shaking her head back and forth.

I'd like to go with you, but I wanna stay home with you

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian.

You do so much for me, my friend. I am truly blessed to have the friendship of someone as amazing as you. You are part of my life.

When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.

It's so ironic. When you finally achieve recognition, you hide behind dark glasses.

Even if Osama bin Laden is caught tomorrow, it is five years too late. To capture him now I don't think makes us any safer.

I'd rather fail at something important than succeed at something trivial.

The truth is that we all have lives that are complicated. We all get hurt by people we love sometimes. It's laughable to believe that anyone is immune. The important thing is how you behave.