The most powerful lessons occur where studies intersect with real life.

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.

Don’t allow anyone to pollute your mind with negative thoughts and negative words.

What are we, Charlie's Angels?

I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky's the limit.

I am a student of love.

My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to help the poor by taking a little bit from the rich.

I bring my past I bring my future I bring my rights and I bring my song I stand atop the Hacienda and shout We belong Here. We belong.

I just am a Canadian. It is not a thing which you can escape from. It is like having blue eyes