The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.

The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.

The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.

Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

If you don’t just want to live an ordinary life, then you will have to be intentional about converting all your time into that which you have been called to do.

Set your mind free from any negative thoughts.

Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed.

There's not protocol for falling in love with someone. There's no game plan to tell you when it's appropriate to do certain things, say other things.

I just want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress

I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.

I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.

If you have a child who is seven feet tall, you don't cut off his head or his legs. You buy him a bigger bed and hope he plays basketball.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.