Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.

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.

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.

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.

Doubter wants proof which contributes nothing to her faith.

Children are the angels that the gods give us.

And although we adore men individually, we agree that as a group they're rather stupid.

We all have to feed the greed of other people until we find people to feed our greed and life goes on.

What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.

One source of the sublime is infinity.

I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.

I know the commitment that TV requires but it's nice to come to work and have fun.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.