Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

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.

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

The ultimate use of power is to empower others.

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.

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