The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.

The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.

Art is literacy of the heart

The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the kinds of fish we catch.

The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.

All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

Schools are not about enabling children to have a living but about children being able to have a life.

The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.

The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

Every new situation leads to new strategy for survival.

Even the littlest things were now a challenge, one I didn't understand.

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

I love museums, and I think they're fantastic, but they don't touch the people who I frequently think need to be touched with at least some reminder of legacy.

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

It was a promise she knew I might not be able to keep. But I made it anyway because I was going to find a way to make it true.

Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright?

I hope you lay down in your sleep and you choke on every lie you told

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.