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

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.

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 everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.

i am watersoft enoughto offer lifetough enoughto drown it away

Patriotism is dangerous, but kindness is always kind.

That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.

All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.

I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.

To me, is the way to make the most impact - let the actions speak louder than the words.

I am working on my nightclub act, definitely want to do more singing.

We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end.

Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct

I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it.