Like taking a breath, learning was the simple and extraordinary result of being alive.

Curiosity is the great motivator of an education. It’s the how of learning: how we go from not knowing something to knowing it inside and out.

In the twenty-first century, we use a nineteenth-century school model with twentieth-century values. There’s clearly something wrong with this picture.

Not to wish too hard for a shift in circumstances since it never happens as you imagine.

Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.

The most valuable gift you have to offer is yourself.

Koko B. Ware … his mom’s first name was Tupper.

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Although talent feels and looks predestined, in fact we have a good deal of control over what skills we develop, and we have more potential than we might ever presume to guess.

Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts.

In real life, Josh [Gad] is a different kind of lovable idiot. In real life, he's a much filthier idiot. He has a dirty sense of humor.