Our thinking tends to be hazy, hasty, narrow, or sprawling-causal terms for impulsive. Just like anything else, thinking skills require upkeep. If they aren't nourished, they'll fade away.

In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen.

Learning is a consequence of thinking.

One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.

Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.

Sometimes the Good is the enemy of the BEST!

There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone

Because sometimes silence speaks much louder than words possibly could.

I design music I don't produce it.

What use legs if not to take you down the road? What use eyes if not to see what lay beyond the horizon? What use hands if not to open doors?

Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving into life from death, without denying the devastation that came before.

Mathematicians are born, not made.

Not having to travel and being able to settle in has helped me in training life and school life. I've learned to get a grip and take care of myself.

Every thought of God is prayer.

I love working quickly. I don't like to do thousands of takes, and I don't want to do thousands of set ups.

The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.