We should open our eyes, see what's in front of us, and act.

The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice.

I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement.

Your body's always going through changes. It's fattening or thinning or wrinkling or blotching, and the only thing you really have control over is putting some decoration on it.

What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities.

Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, "How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?" It is a dazzling and elegant question, a question that demands an answer--a range of answers, really, spiraling outward in widening circles.

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.