No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.

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.

I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don’t.

A certain kind of courage is required to follow what truly calls to us

A man who journeys in the desert finds a guide among the desert people, and he who journeys on the sea trusts seamen.

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself-in fact till it does that it hardly is experience.

In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.

On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long

I wanted to be a nobleman; I bought a name and a title... Oh, nothing is impossible with five million a year.

Griddle cakes, pancakes, hot cakes, flapjacks: why are there four names for grilled batter and only one word for love?

The only one who can beat me is me.

This little patch of earth and this little pile of stones I can wash the dust from off my face and skin But this earth is in my bones