Knowledge is nothing unless it is shared.

Advice, after all, is just experience without the pain of having to learn those lessons yourself.

A personal mentor is an individual whose principles and values have dictated his or her decisions and actions as that person went about his or her life.

Humiliation is not the same thing as correction: One attacks the person; the other attacks the problem.

I won’t like you all the same, but I’ll love you all the same.” That was the promise I made to them, and I kept it.

“Don’t whine, don’t complain, don’t make excuses. Just do the best you can. Nobody can do more than that.”

Consistency is essential. You have to make sure that your students know what is expected of them and what the consequences will be if those expectations are not met.

Mentors are all around us; they are everywhere we look. Anywhere there is a sharing of knowledge or a teaching of experience, there is a mentor.

Discipline applied fairly and effectively rarely needs to be repeated.