You have to remember, we may be the only nation, the only one I know of, that uses test scores not to assess kids, but to assess teachers. I think we're unique in doing that.

There's a lot of feeling that the school curriculum has been bare-bones, just drill and, again, no art, music, and so on and so forth.

Twelve million students take the PARCC or Smarter Balanced. Now, if 5 percent opt out, that creates - that triggers some restrictions, and 5 percent of 12 million is only 600,000.

For gypsies do not like to stay -They only come to go away.

People will forget what you said, but no one will ever forget how you made them to feel

Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

If two people are at completely different stages in their spiritual life, that can present a real problem.

You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.

Competitiveness is a personality thing and competitive people don't become pushovers the day they turn fifty.

Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take.

Faith is taking a step in the same direction that the evidence is pointing.

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.