Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason.

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

Dark night knows what full moon requires When all your love my heart acquiresCelestial bodies no more faded Life makes sound

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of our venture.

Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.

Market forces do not make cities, they destroy them

I feel I overcame something pretty great.

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

The struggle for life is not only the material and economic one. Comfort is no protection from anxiety.

We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight

I have to be pretty inclusive. I have to be pretty much inside of me rather than going out and finding out what people are doing. I don't have the time to. I just listen to my mind, in a way.