When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn learning itself - by years.

Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make a difference.

School improvement is not a mystery. Incremental, even dramatic improvement is not only possible but probable under the right conditions.

Learning, without any opportunities to share what we've learned, is a little like cooking for ourselves; we do it, but we probably won't do it as well.

In a healthy system, there is no blame.

Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance.

Part-time effort means part-tim results.

A success catalyst has the ability to spark significant and sustainable changes, inspire possibilities and accelerate results.

Muslim and non-Muslim from across the world flocked to Baghdad to be part of Al-Ma'mun's project "Bait Al-Hekmah" or "House of Wisdom

Usually, I read the script very often. I think that everything is hiding in the script.

More organizations die of indigestion than starvation

I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.

Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.

The training is nothing! The will is everything! The will to act.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

How shocking must thy summons be, O death, to him that is at ease in his possessions! who, counting on long years of pleasure here, is quite unfurnished for the world to come.