The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.

If Franz Kafka were alive today he'd be writing about customer service.

It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun can be more powerful than they are.

The price of loyalty is incompetence.

Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.

With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network.

The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics

The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap and reporting is expensive.

I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way.

The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.

If it's easy for the government to learn about us, it should be easier for us to learn about the government.

I do believe in loving my own self. It makes me feel good. It helps me in loving others too.

How southern belle of her.

I love the architecture magazines and all of the French magazines for decoration or whatever. I end up enjoying them more sometimes than the fashion magazines.

Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.

I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!

You'll never get to heaven, if you break my heart.

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

Love rushed into my veins emptying me of myself. Now filled with the Beloved my only possession is my name.

Choices can be made again." -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)

I had absolutely no focus as a kid. I never paid attention at school, I never went to college. Not because we were too poor; we were. But if I wanted to go to college, I would have found a way.