High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.

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"!

If typos are God's way of keeping a writer humble, plot holes certainly keeps one on their knees.

If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

The mirror is believed the way a poem is believed. It's believed because it's there.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

I haven't heard from Elvis since his daughter married Michael Jackson. I think it killed him.

Nature doesn't make long speeches.

Half the audience gets where I'm coming from and half the audience is like, "Wait a minute. What does that mean?"

Every unit that is not supported is a defeated unit.

I was stationed at a Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego from 1965 to 1967.

What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death.