Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.

I've learned... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.

the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

I'd like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off

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.

Believing is such a comfort that it's hard to give up a belief just because it isn't true.

I just wish insignificance had more stature.