Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.

It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.

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

The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth

The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

If you're fifty, exercise your mind and body regularly, eat well, and have a general zest for life, you're likely younger - in very real, physical terms - than your neighbor who is forty-four, works in a dead-end job, eats chicken wings twice a day, considers thinking too strenuous, and looks at lifting a beer glass as a reasonable daily workout.