What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

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.

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

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.

Rencana Allah selalu indah...

You're not nothing.

Coaches will do what they can but it doesn't necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don't bother doing the job.

My brother was born without taste or the desire to be professionally lit.

The blues is life itself.

Most writers or performers walk around with the notion in their head that - a paranoid worry that maybe people don't like them.

Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.

We can escape from everything, but not from ourselves.

If I have a problem, I want to work it out, right now.

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced countries and outdistance them, too, in economic matters.