In the best classrooms, grades are only one of many types of feedback provided to students.

Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice.

Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.

Vision without implementation is counterproductive.

The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity.

Deep and sustainable change...requires changes in behavior among those who do not welcome the change.

One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice.

Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness.

Without dreams, life is a desert.

And the game of dominoes is much like life: You gotta play the bones you’ve pulled. It don’t matter if you got seven doubles in your damn hand.

Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises.

I think it's important that members of the United States Senate spend time not just on Capitol Hill but making contact with ordinary people and engaging them in the political process.

The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.

Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

A lot of people know that something very drastic has happened to the very idea of America.

All action begins in rest... This is the ultimate truth.

I do feel Im being respectful to Buddhism and martial arts with Mortal Kombat.

I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to you.