If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.

Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.

Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.

Being superintendent or the superintendent's chief of staff is important work, but there's no chance it's as difficult as being a teacher, and I hesitate to say that it's as important.

In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.

Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.

Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.

Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.

Expressing truth is hard work.

To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.

Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.

Thrilled with the knowledge that she loved me, it took me a moment to realize that she was angry. I found her tantrum irresistible." #Ren

You cannot move things by not moving.

A magician reveals himself not only by the magic he presents but also by the respect and entertainment he gives to his audience.

I imagined she was going to say, You killed a Minotaur! or Wow, you're so awesome! or something like that. Instead she said, "You drool when you sleep.

Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.

Spit fire from my hammer like I wasn't God's child.

The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment!

And one of my absolute favorite quotes of all-time, one that I've adopted as one of my greatest life mottos: Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."

The Song of Love, the Song of Hate, the Songs of Praise and of Thanksgiving; I've learned them all, but there remains one called the Melody of Living.

It was one to three football fields in length. It was massive, about 300 feet above the ground. It had three lights on the points of its triangle and a large red light beneath.