We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

The ultimate use of power is to empower others.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.

Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, yes when we should say no.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

Only you and I who love Jesus and have Him now before this life's death will be able to be among the special super-citizens of the Heavenly City, a special super-class of people!

When you have an opportunity to take the lead and you don't, most of the time something bad happens.

My parents were very protective. I couldn't even cross the street without them getting all excited, and placing bets.

The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

We've been beaten before but never defeated. Tonight we were defeated.

In times of upheaval, people wish for nothing more than composure and sincerity.

Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.

All I know is just what I read in the Congressional Record. They have had some awful funny articles in there lately. As our government deteriorates, our humor increases.