What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.

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.

One does not need to be in any cosmetic relationship.

He [Abram] believes that the PRESENT is the only real thing and everything else is an illusiona distraction

As far as beauty is concerned in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.

I'm a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you're supposed to feel all kinds of things.

It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film.

There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer.

You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.

But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow.