Jed Diamond is, quite simply, one of the wisest men writing today on the topic of male emotional and physical health.

One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.

If Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer were alive today, we’d say they had ADD or a conduct disorder. They [boys] are who they are, and we need to love them for who they are. Let’s not try to rewire them.

If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education.

Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain.

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

Most teachers are not trained in how boys and girls learn differently.

There is no single way to educate.

A mother's job... is very much to hold back the coming of manhood.

The quickest way to create a boy or man who lacks compassion is to judge and shame his feelings.

Neuroligacally, human beings haven't caught up with today's overstimulating environment. Getting kids out in nature can make a difference.

Everything changes except the love.

Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.

My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

I believe we're going to find that respect and affection are essential to all relationships working and contempt destroys them.

He who pays the piper can call the tunes.

I never want to play down to the reader. I think readers are willing to go along if they're intrigued.

Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war.

Stories don’t always have happy endings.

As he did so, a wind rose up around him, around the man who had been called lord, Dragon Reborn, king, killer, lover and friend.