"When the student is ready, the teacher appears." -Chinese proverb

"Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire." – W.B. Yeats

"If you do not have the time to read, you do not have the time to lead." – Phillip Schlechty

"Students are volunteers, whether we want them to be or not. Their attendance can be commanded, but their attention must be earned. Their compliance can be insisted on, but their commitment is under their own control." – Phillip Schlechty

"If you think of vision and mission as an organization's head and heart, the values its holds are its soul." – From Making Common Sense Common Practice, by Buzzotta/Lefton/Cheney/Beatty (New Leaders Press)

"The best teacher is the one who suggests, rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself." –Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." –Conrad Hilton

"When one teaches, two learn." –Robert Half