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

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.

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

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.

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.

Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods!

Human being may fail you, but God will never forsake thee.

The only time you must not fail is the last time you try

You must be holy in the way God asks you to be holy. God does not ask you to be a Trappist monk or a hermit. He wills that you sanctify your everyday life.

No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago.

To me, bigger is better.

If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.

Time is neither friend nor enemy it's just a measurement.

There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant. Just because his physique belies that, don't underestimate him.

My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.