There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?

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.

Maybe it's weird, but I don't feel in any way, shape or form that I'm taking over his show.

Wichita Falls, Texas is considering using toilet water for drinking. And a dog there today said, 'White people's problems.'

When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.

I've trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me.

Marriage is a commitment, not a feeling.

It's nice to have a debate in a swing state.

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.

We need to learn how to love each other. If we cannot do that, then we need to learn to respect one another. If we can't manage to do that, then we must learn to tolerate each other.