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.

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.

A sacred soul is a spiritual being.

True love is wanting to spend the rest of your life with someone you would sometimes also like to strangle.

If you ever want to remember anything, tell it to a child.

Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

I think if you're behind the times, you've failed. I think the only way to measure success is being right on time with what people want.

You're not gonna give somebody more money if they don't ask for it.

I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.

Anger is a warning signal. It points to problems.

A shiver runs down your spine when you realize it is not our imagination. Something is watching us out there.