When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for 'life' or 'growing up uninstitutionalized'.

The mind WILL be free, or it will be dead.

Learning is not a product of teaching . kids are born learning. They learn how to walk, how to talk. They're basically little scientists. If we don't stop that process, it will continue.

In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it...and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself.

Education is not a race, with winners and losers. It's not a commodity to be bought and sold.

No law is an issue until someone tries to enforce it.

The only alternative to making mistakes is for someone to make all your decisions for you, in which case you will make their mistakes instead of your own.

Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.

It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.

I want to raise my kids, I want to get them through their teenage years. ... I do love my work with the UN and with PSVI so if I can do more of that and be more effective I will do whatever I can.

Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern.

The political face of Europe is one that has said very clearly that it wants cooperation and friendship with the United States.

The first time I kissed Brad my knees went weak - I literally lost my breath!

I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

Pessimism drops the curtain on tomorrow.

It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities.

I don't think sexuality defines a person. It's one small part of who you are, in my view. You are many things, and I never felt that people were defined by their sexuality solely.