As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

The ultimate use of power is to empower others.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.

Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, yes when we should say no.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

You know, I'm sick and tired of people pointing rifles at me.

If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.

Governments grow as God declines, in both Europe and the United States

Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within

Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so must you attend to nourish the garden of your becoming.

One customer well taken care of could be more valuable than $10,000 worth of advertising.

Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.

Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can’t have. And then about what you receive and misuse.

You - best secret boyfriend ever.

Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg.