Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems

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.

A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.

I breathe you. I live you. I love you

Becoming aware of what you are doing and how others perceive you will provide you with instant insight for making changes where necessary.

To want is to have a weakness.

I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.

This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.

Integrity is the best of all protectors...we cannot be more secure than when fortified by a good conscience.

Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.

I am what is around me.

When people start talking about their bowel movements, they are inexorable as the processes of which they speak.