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

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

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. In other words, begin to act the part, as well as you can, of the person you would ….

Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our education….

What we get, and all we ever get, from the outside is information; how we choose to act on this information is up to us..

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 n….

When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control..

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..

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

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is..

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to..

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

There is no real reason to fail a child," "Once children start failing, they begin to believe that they can't do anything. They give up..

We learn... 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we both hear and see 70% of what is discussed 80% of what we….

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you..

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

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..

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

The ultimate use of power is to empower others..

To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, w….

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