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.

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.

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.

To find the beauty of life, don’t complain, compliment.

Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.

Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.

The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.

The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.

Don't get so busy that you don't have time to meditate. Take the time.... Christ may be nearer than we have knowledge. 'I am in your midst, but you do not see me.'

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.

First of all, I swore it was two people playing. When I finally admitted to myself that was one man, I gave up the piano for a month. I figured it was hopeless to practice.

Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn't get in the pot or he didn't get melted down.

Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.