If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.

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"!

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.

Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage.

Sellswords put gold before honor.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.

Your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people's interests first.

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

Dad at breakfast today being very quiet. I notice he is clean shaven. I said to him, "Vati, what has happened to the little beaver that used to live on the end of your chin?

When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do we escape from bondage.