Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.
High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.
On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.
We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.
You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.
In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.
As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.
The United States stands by its friends. Israel is one of its friends Peace can be based only on agreement between the parties and agreement can be achieved only through negotiations between them. The United States will not impose the terms of peace. The United States is prepared to supply military equipment necessary to support the efforts of friendly governments, like Israel's, to defend the safety of their people.
I became a writer not because my father was one - my father made false teeth for a living. I became a writer because the Irish nuns who educated me taught me something about bravery with their willingness to give so much to me.
Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.
Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things. Their language has been lost. But not the gestures.