Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct . . . and are experienced differently.

Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.

If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.

Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning.

Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.

In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.

Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.

Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it.

Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test.

If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task.

People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices

There is no shame in having been the woman I was. She made me the woman I am.

Laughter is like crying.

I do write all the time about - you tell me what your dreams are. What are you chasing? It's not impossible. Name it.

Regardless of our individual circumstances, we can all enjoy the full blessings of priesthood power through keeping the covenants we have made at baptism and in the temple.

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.

Well, it's practically over, thank God - I'm 83, there won't be that much more of it to put up with I don't think!

I'd date a fan as long as she didn't scream in my face.

The singularity has nothing to do with consciousness.

If we follow the example of Jesus Christ and become true peacemakers, that flood of love will cover the earth as with a blanket.