To be himself, one neeeds to be free from the pressure of evaluative praise

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.

Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth.

Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Reality's dark dream! I turn from you, and listen to the wind.

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.

Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things.

I do not have answers to all the problems, but for sure will work to find solutions to as many as I can.

I've got to be honest, and I'm not just saying this because the majority of you reading this live there, but I love the United Kingdom. I just flat-out love it.

These people get to the top because they have to, because inside them burns a dream too big, too ever present, too demanding to be denied.

An amazing thing, the human brain. Capable of understanding incredibly complex and intricate concepts. Yet at times unable to recognize the obvious and simple.

I don't know if that result's enough to life Birmingham off the bottom of the table, although it'll certainly take them above Sunderland

If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam.