You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.

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"!

Sometimes funny is all you've got.

I always look forward to playing in Toronto because it's such a historic city when it comes to hockey.

Sarah Palin finally heard what happened in Japan and she's demanding that we invade 'Tsunami.'

We're not playing solitaire out here.

The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.

Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?

We are not endeavoring to get ahead of others, but to surpass ourselves.

In the intervals between battles, the Warrior rests.

Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it.

How easy it must be when you had no secrets from the person you lived with." - Eclipse, page 208