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.

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.

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.

The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.

When you go to sleep, where do you really go?

Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they're not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If your kid knows how to play soccer, but not make dinner, you have done them a disservice.

Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.

Love is a labyrinth of misunderstandings whose way out doesn’t exist.

The past is where its supposed to be.

The first time I kissed Brad my knees went weak - I literally lost my breath!

It is a game, the whole ball of wax is a game - your life, my life, politics, economy, hunger.

Sport has been called the last bastion of male domination. Unfortunately, there are others - Congress, for instance.

My whole goal is just to keep myself motivated. If I'm motivated, if I'm on fire, it's going to catch with somebody else.

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.