If you believe it's life or death for the kids, it changes everything you do.

Before we can go on making workers, we must first make people.

If you can create community in a classroom the kids will not drop out

You cannot teach somebody how to relate to the kids, they have to come with it.

The greatest weight a bird has to drop before it can fly is fear.

If you venture to be a sageLet your virtues subside your rageFor deep wisdom you’ll be veneratedLet cold veins feel blood cells generated

I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray.

Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.

To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.

You are dharma. You are a wheel. And the wheel of dharma spins.

History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.

I've lived in America for many years. I mean, I love being a Canadian, but I truly identify with America. I love America so much.

The reflex of fear was soon replaced with another, more useful emotion. Rage.

If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.