If you ask me, taking on risk and being more daring is a real important part of creativity.

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

A passion for learning...isn't something you have to inspire with; it's something you have to keep from extinguishing.

It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.

Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.

Teaching is listening, learning is talking

Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so.

Timely service like timely gifts is doubled in value.

I would say that awards are for children. Because children need a tangible representation of their achievement. And as adults, you have to settle for the respect and admiration of your peers.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

One half was like, I hope this doesn't affect it, and the other half was like, it's great that people know I did a Beyoncé record.

If it's dirty, it's not funny, but if it's funny, it's not dirty.

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of delaying too long before putting the fruit in the Jell-O so it's too firm and the chunks just sit on top.

You hurt the ones you love the most. Because it hurts you the most.

who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.

... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.

I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series.