In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.

I've learned... That money doesn't buy class.

It isn't working that's so hard, it's getting ready to work.

My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.

Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do arithmetic without a computer.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

Teachers who have plugged away at their jobs for twenty, thirty, and forty years are heroes. I suspect they know in their hearts they've done a good thing, too, and are more satisfied with themselves than most people are. Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.