If you cry when you're in love, it sure ain't no disgrace.
To be himself, one neeeds to be free from the pressure of evaluative praise
I have great faith in 'ordinary parents. ' Who has a child's welfare more at heart than his ordinary parent? It's been my experience that when parents are given the skills to be more helpful, not only are they able to use these skills, but they infuse them with a warmth and a style that is uniquely their own.
The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.
Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.
I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.
How can we help a child change from undependable to dependable, from a mediocre student to a capable student, from someone who won't amount to very much to someone who will count for something. The answer is at once both simple and complicated: We treat a child as if he already is what we would like him to become.
I'm proud to be a crime novelist. What I've chosen is the best way to convey the questions I'm trying to raise.
Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.
Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth.
I live a great life. I can't complain. I'm healthy, my family's good and there's nothing I can really complain about.