Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.

Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.

If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.

Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning.

Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.

In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.

Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.

Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it.

Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test.

If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task.

People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices

James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means.

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.

One of the things that kept our marriage intact was community. Friends who spurred us on to finish strong together. And it’s friends who esteem marriage that will do this

Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for several years.

The glorious thing for you always has consequences for others.

I would do a musical, but I can't sing.

When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.

Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'