The idea that we can take this lump of clay and mold it into a form of our choosing is absolutely ludicrous.

No kid should be getting three or four hours of homework a night. There's no breathing time, there's no family time, there are just extracurriculars and homework and then go to bed.

Challenging behavior is just a signal, the fever, the means by which the kid is communicating that he or she is having difficulty meeting an expectation.

It's a whole lot more productive to be in problem-solving mode than it is to be in behavior modification mode.

We have forgotten that those skills on the more positive side of human nature have to be taught, have to be modeled, have to be practiced.

My advice to educators is collaborate with parents; they know a lot about their kids.

If we're being unilateral, then communication does not happen, the relationship does not happen.

If a solution isn't mutually satisfactory, it's not going to stick.

When people are rushed, they're stressed and you greatly increase the likelihood of being punitive and unilateral just because you're trying to grasp control.

Solutions can't be imposed. That just fosters resentment.

Parents are much more likely to be attuned to what they don't like than they are to the expectations that the kid is having difficulty meeting.

You ought to endure and complete your own race of life.

Self-education is self-empowerment.

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

Lies sound like facts to those who've been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth.

We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity.

there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!

Mess with my weed again and I’ll be informing Daddy that there was an early casualty on the mission.” I saw him wince at my designation for Mircea and grinned.

We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That's okay.

Science is very cross-generational; you're not just aiming it at twentysomethings, or eightysomethings. Every town's got a really broad selection of people and age groups interested in science.

You'll get humbled right before you're blessed. It's just a test to make sure you can handle what's next.