Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.

The reason they were designated as targets was to keep them from the witness stand and us. Is it just a coincidence that four years later they haven't been indicted

My gut reaction [on Betsy DeVos] was, oh, my God. We are now back into the education wars.

I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood.

A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.

She needed to come with an instructional manual. And one not written in Spanish.

It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me.

making the most of every second, because seconds became minute sand minutes became precious when life could be taken in less than a breath.

Life is nothing, if you feel nothing.

If you have something to do that is worthwhile doing don't talk about it ... do it.

Show us not the aim without the way. For ends and means on earth are so entangled That changing one, you change the other too; Each different path brings other ends in view

The Balkanization of the media means that nobody is having a single conversation with a single set of agreed-upon facts and assumptions the way you had as recently as the 90s.

...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.

Actresses are kind of a little crazy.

Infinite patience produces immediate results.