We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.

Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, yes when we should say no.

Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.

We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.

There is no real reason to fail a child," "Once children start failing, they begin to believe that they can't do anything. They give up.

The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.