Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.

If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.

When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Only if a child feels right can he think right.

Responsibility is fostered by allowing children a voice and wherever indicated a choice in matters that affect them.

To be himself, one neeeds to be free from the pressure of evaluative praise

It is not good to have TOO MUCH of anything.

My view is that, if you think that money brings problems, you have a problem with money. The money itself is innocent.

They had just digested a recent meal of prepositions and were happily farting out apostrophes and ampersands

You think that I'm different.You should look in the mirror sometime.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain.

I've got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old.

I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.

I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.

Growth is the process of responding positively to change.