There is no single way to educate.

One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.

If Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer were alive today, we’d say they had ADD or a conduct disorder. They [boys] are who they are, and we need to love them for who they are. Let’s not try to rewire them.

If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education.

Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain.

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

Most teachers are not trained in how boys and girls learn differently.

A mother's job... is very much to hold back the coming of manhood.

The quickest way to create a boy or man who lacks compassion is to judge and shame his feelings.

Neuroligacally, human beings haven't caught up with today's overstimulating environment. Getting kids out in nature can make a difference.

All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test... better. Its a negotiation tool.

I was with you at the beginning of your journey. It is right that I should follow you to its end.

I stole the very shiniest words and hoarded them all up until they made something worth having.

Life was like that when you were fifteen and knobby-kneed and you only had a handful of choices. Your world was small and cruel and narrow-minded and breathtaking.

Roy's wife of Aldivalloch, Wat ye how she cheated me, As I came o'er the braes of Balloch?

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.

Most of my cliches aren't original.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today

I began to practise day and night, and the more I did, the more I was overwhelmed by the tremendous achievement of that great family of black American musicians I was beginning to know closely.

A cult classic... both a celebration of the unlimited potential of the comic book form, and a perfect melding of inspiring, iconoclastic imaginations.