You're your kid's partner, not the person who's pulling all the strings.

No kid should be getting three or four hours of homework a night. There's no breathing time, there's no family time, there are just extracurriculars and homework and then go to bed.

Challenging behavior is just a signal, the fever, the means by which the kid is communicating that he or she is having difficulty meeting an expectation.

It's a whole lot more productive to be in problem-solving mode than it is to be in behavior modification mode.

We have forgotten that those skills on the more positive side of human nature have to be taught, have to be modeled, have to be practiced.

My advice to educators is collaborate with parents; they know a lot about their kids.

If we're being unilateral, then communication does not happen, the relationship does not happen.

If a solution isn't mutually satisfactory, it's not going to stick.

When people are rushed, they're stressed and you greatly increase the likelihood of being punitive and unilateral just because you're trying to grasp control.

The idea that we can take this lump of clay and mold it into a form of our choosing is absolutely ludicrous.

Solutions can't be imposed. That just fosters resentment.

We have to live a life that is more revolutionary than that of the revolutionaries.

When a complex is acquired, personal development is stopped and the person even being an adult, sometimes behaves in a childish and immature way

The White Ribbon Foundation is organization I support. They're bringing awareness of violence against women and I think it's important in our society.

Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.

Not everyone, the Collector was aware, is improved by the job he does in life; some people are visibly disimproved.

Life is a movie, let love play its role.

We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture

Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.

Bill Clinton was doing Ku Klux Klan grand kleagel jokes at Byrd's funeral, saying, Oh, Robert C. Byrd, he used the - he was the grand kleagel. He just did what he had to do.