Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.

One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.

There is no algorithm for creativity.

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.

Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.

Very good laws may be ill timed.

In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.

I predict one of these two teams will win the Super Bowl.

The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.

Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise.

When I was 17, I was so shy I could barely speak or introduce myself to anyone.