The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.

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.

wear your treasure and you will be Treasured

In order for your dream to come into manifestation, you must first repeatedly envision its possibility in your mental imagination.

The more you know, the more you can do. The more you can do the bigger you become

We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.

Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.

I'm not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I'm afraid of.

Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.

You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read.

I wanted my style to be very recognizable.

The most revolutionary act is a clear view of the world as it really is.