We can always gain more depth and breadth in our work [as educators]. There are always new discoveries to be made.

In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.

Assessment is today's means of modifying tomorrow's instruction.

Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.

A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.

The central job of schools is to maximize the capacity of each students.

As educators we need to understand that there is no finish line in our work.

It is not so important to have all the answers as to be hungry for them.

Plan to be better today, but don't ever plan to be finished

Interest refers to student’s affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill.

The high stakes test culture runs almost totally counter to what we know about how people learn. It causes us to engage in professional malpractice on a regular basis.

By making yourself a life-long leaner you’ll keep discovering new and exciting things about yourself and others.

In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up.

Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.

I used practically all the money I had available.

The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick

But now, I get up every morning and go to the gym because I don't like waking up stiff or in pain and wondering if my hip is going to hurt me.

In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]

I understood. I have understood. I do understand.

Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy

It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.