The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.

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

Life becomes perfect if I look at it through my imperfect perceptions.

When humanity suffers from the darkness of violence, I will bring the empathetic, soft, kind, light from the moon to enlighten humanity.

He lived far from the gods, but in his mind he was at home with them.

The point of sloths is to bring a sense of wonder, magic, and happiness to all other species. Did you know that every other animal's favorite animal is the sloth?

I used to hate exposure situations. What is generally referred to as 'red carpet.'

The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work.

‎To focus on matters beyond our control is to misdirect energy, waste time, and doom us to frustration and failure.

I have been a waitress, and I was a damn fine waitress too, let me tell you.

It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.

My whole act is confession.