Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.

A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.

The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.

The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.

Sometimes doing the right thing does take more courage, but the feeling it gives you deep inside makes it worth it.

Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody.

If life is a comedy to him who thinks and a tragedy to him who feels it is a victory to him who believes.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet.

Did you folks see President Bush's State of the Union Address? How about that surprise announcement? Howard Dean has been captured and he's in the hands of interrogators.

The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.

...I've found out it's fun to go shopping. It's such a feminine thing to do.

For hundreds of thousands of years I have been dust-grains floating and flying in the will of the air, often forgetting ever being in that state, but in sleep I migrate back.