Live, so you do not have to look back and say: ‘God, how I have wasted my life.’

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it’s really bad because everything we’ve done is de-humanizing education. It’s destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a...

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they...

Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

The fact that you are willing to say, ”I do not understand, and it is fine,” is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

No further evidence is needed to show that ‘mental illness’ is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to...

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.

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don’t have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker....

The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival.

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

It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

I’m certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

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

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing, even though you have never formulated it.

The system isn’t stupid, but the people in it are.

We don’t focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation...

The hypothesis that things have affordances, and that we perceive or learn to perceive them, is very promising, radical, but not yet elaborated.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.

God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election.

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

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

There’s nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.

When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you’re like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting...

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

I’ve told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.