The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.

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.

Forgive yourself and you will be happy. Forgive everything and you will be happiest.

It’s easy to demonstrate how progressive and open-minded and loyal you are when it costs you nothing.

No pressure, Jack. All we need is a miracle.

We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.

Kevin Keegan said if he had a blank sheet of paper, five names would be on it.

We discover our character through decisions under pressure.

Until you have courted the bluebills in the snow, you have not tasted of the purer delights of waterfowling

I don't mind not being cool; I wear a cardigan.

I think white people like to tell Asian people how they should feel about race because they're too scared to tell black people.

The pain is the outcome of our bad deeds.