The systems they (the Arts) nourish, which include our integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities, are, in fact, the driving forces behind all other learning.

I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked.

For many students, school is an obligation, not a joy and a privilege. This means you need to ‘sell’ the learning to them.

We are social beings and our brains grow in a social environment.

We have discovered that exercise is strongly correlated with increased brain mass, better cognition, mood regulation, and new cell growth.

.....the research on the brain does not validate that we are singularly processing input or learning with a single sensory input.

From birth to the teenage years, the brain undergoes a fourfold increase in volume

Neither Boncer nor Teddy comes out of the house, not even to watch from the veranda. Here, laying the dead to rest, like washing and feeding and birth, is women’s work.

Giving and receiving is the law of life. When we give with love and accept with deepest gratitude, our souls rejoice.

Thinking positively is a choice.

To quote Gandhi yet again, "If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future.

Just don't go to a place where everything is too expensive... it'll put your husband in a bad mood.

There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.

Holiness is the balance between my nature and the law of God as expressed in Jesus Christ.

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.

I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.