Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.

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

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

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our educational system, have been downgraded in all but a few scientific subjects.

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

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