Our youth want less adult contact if that co ntacttreats them like boys. They want more adult contact that treats them like young men. Tired as they are of the former, they are hungry for the latter

One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.

If Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer were alive today, we’d say they had ADD or a conduct disorder. They [boys] are who they are, and we need to love them for who they are. Let’s not try to rewire them.

If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education.

Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain.

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

Most teachers are not trained in how boys and girls learn differently.

There is no single way to educate.

A mother's job... is very much to hold back the coming of manhood.

The quickest way to create a boy or man who lacks compassion is to judge and shame his feelings.

Neuroligacally, human beings haven't caught up with today's overstimulating environment. Getting kids out in nature can make a difference.

I feed my mind by reading everyday as I feed myself by eating every day.

There is no greater treasure in this world than somebody who loves you as you are.

Sometimes the hardest, bravest thing in the world is to let someone love you.

If you fail to prepare you prepare to fail.

What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.

My karate skills are very limited. I'm a green belt.

Sometimes we make our alliances not by the shape and color of our flesh but by the convictions of our heart.

Giving advice was a lot harder than following it.

There's a sort of absurdity to Australia and the so-called New World nations. I sensed it all the time growing up in Western Australia, which is really remote.

What is new is not always true, and what is true is not always new.