"In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life."

"Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing."

"People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives."

"There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life."

"Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences."

"Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience."

"Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears."

"Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers."