"I think people involved with institutions find it harder to know the time to go than the time to come."

“You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born.”

“No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony.”

“As far as cookbooks go, I think Joy of Cooking is a classic. I've used it over and over again. Julia Child frustrates me. By the time you get all her herbs together, you're exhausted”

“Only a system of state-controlled schools can be free to teach whatever the welfare of the State may demand.”

Source : Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1919). “Public Education in the United States: A Study and Interpretation of American Educational History; an Introductory Textbook Dealing with the Larger Problems of Present-day Education in the Light of Their Historical Development”

“Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.”

“Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.”

“If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.”

“Each painting evolves freely and independently.”