Our children must be offered an education up to par with thier potential-and equal to the needs of the Twenty-first century.

Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.

The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.

Americans must either choose big government and be willing to pay for and submit to it, or they must move toward smaller, less intrusive government and be willing to enjoy fewer government programs.

No matter what the Constitution says, it won't endure if the people don't closely read it and demand that it be followed.

Until the American majority is willing to live within its means, it can hardly force its political leaders to do so.

The only person who can fix education is the student.

Real value means people value-and creating value really means helping people choose better lives.

The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring.

Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.

Education means the ability to think independently and creatively, and development of the skill of applying one's knowledge in dealing with people and situations in the real world.

Investments in greater email marketing sophistication often lead to even higher returns, not diminishing returns.

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'.

Capital T truth is dead.

The country is in tremendous trouble.You know this in North Carolina, because you see what's happening to your jobs, they're disappearing.

You haven't lived until you've lived with a cat.

Please help my arthritis. Please help me bring up my strength, make me young again.

Connecting today is a dialogue.

I never prepare a speech. I never think when I give a speech, except for "don't embarrass yourself or others," meaning "remember the names of the people you have to thank."

I love a challenge, and I think it's when people least expect you to do something that you often do your best.

People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising is the highest form of advertising.