Wise parents know that fighting a teenager, like fighting a riptide, is inviting doom.

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.

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

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

So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.

There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

You mustn't smile when you lose. You have to be sad like other people. You have to win every game.

As I said before, [patriotism] is distinct from acting to benefit the government - a distinction that's increasingly lost today.

The Peacekeepers had a tradition that every problem had a solution. It was a nice slogan. Wasn't true, but it sounded good.

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.

The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.

Penalties put too much strain on one player. It could ruin his career if he's not a strong character.

To pray is to descend with the mind into the heart, and there to stand before the face of the Lord, ever-present, all seeing, within you.

There are some great divers in Europe and I'm really excited about going to Eindhoven.