“Student engagement is the product of motivation and active learning. It is a product rather than a sum because it will not occur if either element is missing.”

“Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.”

“Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.”

“A teacher will be frustrated if she is only motivated to teach what she has learned. Yet, if she is motivated because of the students, then she will learn from them how to teach.”

“Productivity -- real, self-driven productivity -- was one of the first entrepreneurial skills I learned. It served me well when I was on my own, and it has served me even better as an employee because it requires a kind of organization and self-motivation that employees aren't necessarily incentivized to cultivate. After all, if you are superproductive, all you'll get is more work to do, right?”

“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”