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 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...

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst...

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 think and that is all that I am.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we’ll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

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

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.