Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

All of us are much more human than otherwise.

It is easier to do one’s duty to others than to one’s self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.

Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

Only the insecure strive for security.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

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

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

I think and that is all that I am.

I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by...

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This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

I didn’t fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience – to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.

I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to...

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

Everything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it.

Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without.

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don’t have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

You can’t choose up sides on a round world.

We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

If you do jot feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work – work the like of which I do not know.

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do...

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the poser to choose either.

We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind’s greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make...

Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.

As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‘I release the need for this in my life’.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

Sometimes we’re so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.

If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

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

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.