Responsibility is fostered by allowing children a voice and wherever indicated a choice in matters that affect them.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.

If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.

When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Only if a child feels right can he think right.

To be himself, one neeeds to be free from the pressure of evaluative praise

Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth.

Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of "systematically assisting Sisyphus's stealthy, cyst-susceptible sister, " which is easier done than said.

If anything normal were useful it would have been done already. That's why my motto is "Dare to Differ." Who know's what you'll find ?

We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands.

If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

Don't talk about things you don't like. Talk about music that you love, books that you've read. I put a lot of recipes online.

I want to try to counter what Donald Trump says because a lot of it is mean-spirited and would hurt people.

They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.

Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not.

It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it's very good for cinema.