We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
Everybody needs one essential friend.
To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, yes when we should say no.
I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don't think God wastes anything.
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
They [my characters]speak to me all the time! In fact some of them never shut up!