Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged.

Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.

It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart.

You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.

The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better

If you are not prepared to resign or be fired for what you believe in, then you are not a worker, let alone a professional. You are a slave.

Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture.

Kids make their mark in life by doing what they can do, not what they can't... School is important, but life is more important. Being happy is using your skills productively, no matter what they are.

All human beings have all of the intelligences. But we differ, for both genetic and experiential reasons, in our profile of intelligences at any moment.

Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

I could write paper people and I would love them too

You learn who you are only by making yourself accountable to the judgment of others.

You think everyone will stay behind and do everything you did all over again, forever. You picture old geezers in jean jackets doing whip-its behind the plaza.

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

I was always really proud of the fact that I had a very positive influence as a role model.

Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.

If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative.

there is nothing more American than the trade-union movement.

Leadership is not achieved by an individual. Leadership is bestowed by the group.

The world you think of is in your own mind.