Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

The more a person perceives that he/she is loved, the less they will interfere with the lives of others.

The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.

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