That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.

Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.

It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.

The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses.

Life's just a bunch of accidents, connected by one perfect end.

We no longer have any time to waste, entertaining our dark side. It is time we recognize those evil elements of our internal world and start working untiringly on eradicating them.

I radiated with all the stars in the night sky and the courage of a thousand men ran through my veins.

My mind couldn't fit itself around the shape of his absence.

Faith is courage it is creative while despair is always destructive.

Nothing is complete in itself but requires something outside itself in order to exist.

Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.

People think that I'm very serious.

Success has less to do with what we can get ourselves to do and more to do with keeping ourselves from doing what we shouldn’t.

Spring is the only revolutionary whose revolution has succeeded.