Everybody needs one essential friend.

What we get, and all we ever get, from the outside is information; how we choose to act on this information is up to us.

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

Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more than anyone else, but they are not willing to settle for short-term relief if it means reducing their options later. They don't rob Peter to pay Paul, they face reality now.

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.

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.