It's a whole lot more productive to be in problem-solving mode than it is to be in behavior modification mode.

No kid should be getting three or four hours of homework a night. There's no breathing time, there's no family time, there are just extracurriculars and homework and then go to bed.

Challenging behavior is just a signal, the fever, the means by which the kid is communicating that he or she is having difficulty meeting an expectation.

We have forgotten that those skills on the more positive side of human nature have to be taught, have to be modeled, have to be practiced.

My advice to educators is collaborate with parents; they know a lot about their kids.

If we're being unilateral, then communication does not happen, the relationship does not happen.

If a solution isn't mutually satisfactory, it's not going to stick.

When people are rushed, they're stressed and you greatly increase the likelihood of being punitive and unilateral just because you're trying to grasp control.

The idea that we can take this lump of clay and mold it into a form of our choosing is absolutely ludicrous.

Solutions can't be imposed. That just fosters resentment.

Parents are much more likely to be attuned to what they don't like than they are to the expectations that the kid is having difficulty meeting.

I love how summer just wraps it’s arms around you like a warm blanket.

There are truths that are not for all men nor for all times.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

Just wanted to inspire my teammates. Obviously, I didn't do enough.

There is a dog in every man.

But it's really hard to eat good when you're traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant.

There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.

I repented at 28 and turned to Jesus.

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else

I love the word 'resonance.'