Why should we be letting people smoke their cigars in their comfortable chairs in Raqqa?

Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents - that person is likely to excel.

There's no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it's going to open up for you.

We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.

God has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.