I'd rather deal with anger than apathy.

We've lost our competitive spirit. We've become so obsessed with making kids feel good about themselves that we've lost sight of building the skills they need to actually be good at things.

That should be the goal, is that every kid in every neighborhood, despite whatever challenges they may face, are getting a great education in our public schools.

I think that one thing that people are missing is that we are never going to be able to fix this country's [American] economy in the long run until we fix our public education system.

Creativity is good and whatever. But if the children don't know how to read, I don't care how creative you are. You're not doing your job.

We are always going to put the best interests of kids above the rights, privileges and priorities of adults.

If you grew up in a lower-income community, or less well-off, the belief is that the way to change that circumstance is through education.

An education reformer is as important in America as the first lady.

We all have to have more rigorous expectations of our kids in America.

Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.

You may not do well, necessarily, up front, and in order to be the best, you've got to work hard.

Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)

If perception is limited to experience and knowledge, what proof do we have of moral judgement?

To lead by example is to offer your life as a living diarry for others to read. Never make your life pages blank

Kill the body and the head will die.

There are four ways God answers prayer: No not yet No I love you too much Yes I thought you'd never ask Yes and here's more.

Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.

Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes extinct.

Anything you are exclusively attached to & identify with ends up distorting & limiting awareness.

Whenever I sat down to write something it was never anything I took lightly. It was something that I'd want you, somebody in Japan, and somebody [over there to hear it].

The company that consistently makes and implements decisions rapidly gains a tremendous, often decisive, competitive advantage.