Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

Whether you are just entering the workforce or nearing retirement age, planning for the future is critical.

Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.

It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.

Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans.

The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries where historians can expect to pay for their opinions with penal servitude or the firing squad.

I think I'm aware of what goes on in my mind more than some guys, and for that reason I fight more battles.

But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going.

The economic and technological changes are real, but I just can't bring myself to wax apocalyptic about the future of books.

Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and they’ll have the chance to become them.

Angel dust won't go away. Somefolks who were smoking it were going away.

Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.

I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job.

The only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals.

Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.