Global inequality means that while the wealthy have too few needs, the needy have too little wealth. Capitalism is stymied, courting long-term disaster.

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and failures...I divide the world into the learners and non-learners.

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.

Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.

Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.

Injuries too well remembered cannot heal.

I divide the world into learners and non-learners.

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures. I divide the world into the learners and nonlearners.

Both sides had more confidence in their opponents' weaknesses than their own strength.

My heart's broken, ' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.

I laugh at myself. I don't take myself completely seriously. I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself.

Heed not thy feeling. Do thy work.

My book has a pre - civil rights setting with a post - civil rights sensibility. I believe less and less that there is something called "The Black Experience," though undoubtedly there was one once.

Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old.

Like an odorless gas, [inequality] pervades every corner of the United States and saps the strength of the country's democracy. But it seems impossible to find the source and shut it off.

People are ready to take the good things into their minds! Give them good and right ideas; they will immediately take them as if they are taking beautiful flowers!

I am not just my hair; I proved to myself that I am a cast of characters. I'm feeling freer to venture out of the 'look' people know me for.

It is not so much what we know that is important, as what we are and what we do.