The fact is that some people are better than others - smarter, harder working, more learned, more productive, harder to replace.

No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time.

Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed a course of study regardless of their actual mastery.

Ultimately it is the yearning to believe that anyone can be brought up to college level that has brought colleges down to everyone's level.

Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.

The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.

A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.

The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding more is better than knowing and understanding less.

In my mind, partial failure is always better than delusory success.

It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.

Earn Nicely, spend wisely and you will live happily.

Leaders live by reality and not by assumptions!

Then focus on thruth, not logic. Stop trying to figure out why and look for what is.

You are no star, Gabby. You're the sky. The rest of us are just circling your orbit.

And all the while one spirit uttered this, The other one did weep so, that, for pity, I swooned away as if I had been dying, And fell, even as a dead body falls.

Illinois is the only state where the present governor rides around in a car whose license plate was made by a previous governor.

I don't worry about overexposure [in work], I think it's important just to go in, and think about quality work and try to put the best movies out.

I'm being made aware of my mortality all the time.

I think that Americans find the Australian humour and the energy of Australians very refreshing - we are quite self-deprecating, we're light-hearted and can have a laugh.

Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward.