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

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. In other words, begin to act the part, as well as you can, of the person you would rather be, the person you most want to become. Gradually, the old, fearful person will fade away.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.

To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.

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.

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.