I cannot teach a child I do not know

You can't motivate a student you don't know.

A good education teaches you how to ask a question. It’s knowing what you don’t know; the skills of critical thought.

Every student, without exception, should be able to succeed well at something consequential.

Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything.

Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.

The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king.

... the kids do what no one expects them to do. That's progress.

The universe is God's son.

Men are bad cyclists, hunters of wild animals, kamikazes, samurai and Christian martyrs.

If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.

People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.

I believe having religion in your life creates the potential for long-lasting relationships.

Whatever happens - ultimately, life corrects itself.

My father was always there for me when I lost. But, then, I never really lost when my father was there.

The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL.

I do want to see an immigration compromise. And you can't have an immigration compromise if everybody's out there calling the president a racist.

I didn't want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-up.