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.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

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.

In any place work is done, you cannot accept anything less than competence if you want high quality.

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.

Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.