The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.

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.

Men, and pigs, are hard on women who sacrifice their virtue, especially for love." Mattis Tannhouser

School life is like being on a monkey mountain...monkeys in the same gang constantly fight and get back together again...and a hierarchy gets established.

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

It's true we're all a little insane.

Money has never been my primary goal.

Rose to Rachel: You cry you get angry then you do something about it.

Water is the mirror that has the ability to show us what we cannot see.

I tell people, 'It's just like a cliche, but it's true: In Hollywood, dreams can come true.'

One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.

That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.