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

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

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.