A mother's job... is very much to hold back the coming of manhood.

One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.

If Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer were alive today, we’d say they had ADD or a conduct disorder. They [boys] are who they are, and we need to love them for who they are. Let’s not try to rewire them.

If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education.

Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain.

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

Most teachers are not trained in how boys and girls learn differently.

There is no single way to educate.

The quickest way to create a boy or man who lacks compassion is to judge and shame his feelings.

Neuroligacally, human beings haven't caught up with today's overstimulating environment. Getting kids out in nature can make a difference.

All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test... better. Its a negotiation tool.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one, but that is the best of all.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

It [prejudice] is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away.

Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, Crank, with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

LOVE your taste in subject matter... perfect summer reading!

I bought a new Japanese car, I turned on the radio ... I don't understand a word they're saying.

We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension.