Expressing truth is hard work.

Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.

Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.

Being superintendent or the superintendent's chief of staff is important work, but there's no chance it's as difficult as being a teacher, and I hesitate to say that it's as important.

In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.

Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.

Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.

Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.

If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.

To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.

Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.

When God becomes routine rather than revival, it's time to switch things up.

We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them.

Maybe Rachel was right all along. Maybe the past is past, history is history, and you just push it aside and look for the future.

I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.

Definitely I love women, I love being around women, I find them incredible and intoxicating, and I've never had that feeling I get with women with a man.

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

Money won't ever make you happy, nor was it ever meant to. Happiness comes from within. Money at best will make you more comfortable.

Fear comes from the unknown. Once you know, then, whatever.

Six months go by very quickly when you're a genius.