If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.

When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Only if a child feels right can he think right.

Responsibility is fostered by allowing children a voice and wherever indicated a choice in matters that affect them.

To be himself, one neeeds to be free from the pressure of evaluative praise

Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth.

All we have in love are two unprotected hearts in an open field. And that’s why our hearts bleed so much when we get hurt.

To do something for someone or something you loved- England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history- wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.

If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.

The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.

But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.

Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new.

The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.

The boundaries of a person's reality often do not change until that person forsakes what he or she feels confident in and then goes blindly with faith.

You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul.