The number of books students read...is among the best indicators of student reading development.

Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make difference.

Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.

We must begin where we are and move forward immediately by starting small and capitalizing on what's at hand.

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

There is beauty in the soul of every man.

Generosity is never out of season.

I don't think that the economy can absorb a massive flow of immigration that does not relate to the issue of persecution.

For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created.

I work hard. But I play hard, too.

The key to every man is his thought.

Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.

We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life's healthy needs.