From birth to the teenage years, the brain undergoes a fourfold increase in volume

I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked.

For many students, school is an obligation, not a joy and a privilege. This means you need to ‘sell’ the learning to them.

The systems they (the Arts) nourish, which include our integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities, are, in fact, the driving forces behind all other learning.

We are social beings and our brains grow in a social environment.

We have discovered that exercise is strongly correlated with increased brain mass, better cognition, mood regulation, and new cell growth.

.....the research on the brain does not validate that we are singularly processing input or learning with a single sensory input.

After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.

Touching him is familiar and unfamiliar. We have been here before. Also we have never been here before.

A dash of humor will only add intense gravity to the proceedings, even as a flash of lightning only makes midnight dreariness all the more impressive.

Dear is my friend--yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good: My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should.

Satan labels you. God names you.

Sunday doesn't just prepare us for the week ahead - it prepares us for eternity.

I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me

Your biggest problem, is that you think the current problem you're facing is your problem

I hate to tell you, but it's not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill and there have been other scandals as you know that have been more than simply naughty e-mails.