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.

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.

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 still remember when my teacher told me that football wouldn't give me anything to eat

Anything that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater.

Conservatives are much more comfortable supporting the leader who's in power than liberals.

I don't know if we're cutting out, but a friend made a really fascinating suggestion to me; that maybe I could go higher.

It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television.

Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good.

Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.