Sometimes the Good is the enemy of the BEST!

In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen.

Learning is a consequence of thinking.

Our thinking tends to be hazy, hasty, narrow, or sprawling-causal terms for impulsive. Just like anything else, thinking skills require upkeep. If they aren't nourished, they'll fade away.

One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.

Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.

One frequently hears that there are not enough places for people to go. But where do we not go? We are too many and tread too heavily. (Perhaps the world is to blame for being too small.)

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is.

The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.

Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

We have now reached a level where we should be even more ambitious. We should focus on more tangible mechanisms and outcomes. Make BRICS a platform of Impact.

Tout ce qui est anachronique est obsce' ne. Everything anachronistic is obscene.

I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.