An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.

When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art.

I want to be a children’s hero… Children need heroes because heroes give hope; without hope they have no future.

You have to be prepared to think outside the box...Stand back and think about what we could do creativity. We've got to do that to push the field forward.

It's easy to have faith when everything is going great. The real test of faith is when you're facing something that only your faith in God will get you through.

Build an organization that can tackle the tough things and keep moving.

Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.

Osama Bin Laden is not going to come here and destroy America. Our education system is doing that just fine.

Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.

When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.

Let's stop teaching to the middle and start teaching to the student.

I could spend all day lost in someone else's imagination. I love reading.

The misbegotten town of Whistlebrass is hidden away in a forgotten corner of northern Vermont like a guilty secret or a bloody knife buried under the floorboards.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms.

Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere?

God bless... God damn.

Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.

I think some of the most important things we read about other people occurs from being able to read their faces and their eyes and their body and those kinds of things.

I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.

Ultimately, you're left with the people you love and who love you- everything else fades into oblivion.