But for some reason the Department believed all students should learn the exact same way and at the exact same time, demonstrating that no one in Instruction knew the first thing about children.

That must be what power does to a man: erases what he knows and makes him remember only what services him at the moment.

There’s discipline, Mahrree knew, and then there’s abuse. The first works, while the second never does. And some people, like Lemuel Thorne, had no idea there was even a difference.

—fear comes only when you don’t have faith in the outcome. And boredom comes only when you believe there’s nothing new worth learning. I simply can’t understand how any of that will occur today.

Laboratory research suggests that how we look and act in the virtual affect our behavior in the real.

The one thing I have that nobody else has or can duplicate is my sound. The sound of my voice. The sound of my life. Others may say similar things but they can’t say them like I do.

I save my dreams and hopes for my kids. When I'm making a wish under a bridge or tunnel, it's always for them.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

You are all a lost generation.

We cracked up together, which was necessary, because she loved me again.

A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.

What holds most people back isn't the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves.

Still, life had a way of adding day to day

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God