I think it's my job to tell the truth.

I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina.

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

Wherever you find something extraordinary, you’ll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.

In America, your zip code or your socioeconomic status should never determine the quality of your education.

We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

To be clear, we the Department of Education want curriculum to be driven by the local level. We are by law prohibited from directing curriculum. We don't have a curriculum department.

The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college.

Education is the civil rights issue of our generation.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

When you get as lucky as I got, you have to work as hard as possible to earn that luck.

The abstracting of visual elements in order to recognize their particularity has become automatic, but seeing, combining, and creating them as integrated 'wholes' will remain a lifelong challenge.

We just have to be ourselves.

One of our goals was to serve a mission, which we are now doing. After that, we want to keep our family together eternally, be of service in whatever way possible, and endure to the end!

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?

Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.

A day spend with friends is always a day well spend.

Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.