Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

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 nothing to what we need to do now.

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

The ultimate use of power is to empower others.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes.

Do not give up on yourself as you encounter your worst version and do not take it easy as you experience your higher self.

Sometimes you want to remember. And sometimes you need to forget.

Eagle's flight of loneliness soars so high Around its sigh, no more alone the sky Other birds remain away, clouds pass byBetween shrouds of life and haze sun rays die

Sam was waiting for her, his gaze sweeping over her. "Looks great." "I look like a geek, " Lucy said. "I smell like a brewery. And I need a bra.""My dream date.

Together, we will prevail, and we will be free.

Luck came to those who left a space for it.

Only see you when I close my eyes. We on borrowed time when I delayed the sunlight.

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

I really believe that happiness comes from things that cannot taken away from you.