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.

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.

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.

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

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.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

Imagination, abstraction, creativity, and coherence etc are some inherently cognitive and mental elements of architect-wise thinking.

That's the nature of any kind of rot. If you don't stop it, it keeps going. It will keep going until it destroys the very organism that feeds it.

The sea hath fish for every man.

Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

If I break my ankle right now, this Olympics wasn't meant to be.

nothing can wear you out like caring about people

Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the world from generation to generation.

I am a control freak but it's important to feel strongly about the material you're working on.