Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

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.

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.

May God continue to grant you more grace for your work.

I am not perfect, my roots are not watered with perfection.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame

Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.

We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.

The San Francisco Tape Music Centre was a kind of collective non-profit that my friends and I got started so that we could pool our equipment and make tape music.

Meditation is my soul's soundless conversation with my inner pilot.