Choice Theory explains that, for all practical purposes, we choose everything we do.

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.

If travel were so inspiring and informing a business...then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers, Pullman porters, and Mormon missionaries.

The real zombie-apocalypse is the pandemic of drama and mediocrity.

The conservatives want to rule man's consciousness; the liberals, his body.

Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.

The way we measure awareness is by how long you can stop thought. If you can't stop thought at all, then you are not powerful. You might be quite evolved, but you have no access to that evolution.

There are three things you cannot hide: smell of the garlic, fragrance of the flower and the wisdom of the teacher.

As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.

Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.

The use of cases is to establish principles; if the cases decide different from the principles, I must follow the principles, not the decisions.

If we don't consciously plant the seeds of what we want in the gardens of our minds we'll end up with weeds.