A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.

But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Your mistakes are to help you develop your purpose, not shame and guilt.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.

If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad.

Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero.

Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve.

I'm still not good at changing nappies, but I do do it.

You can be everything in life but the important thing is to be a good person.

I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.

As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing.