The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it.

Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.

The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.

Collecting is more than just buying objects.

Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre, but will they send their stuff to Memphis? No.

If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate.

One, Andrew Carnegie said, ‘He who dies with wealth dies in shame.’ And someone once said, ‘He who gives while he lives also knows where it goes.’