The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.

Pay off your student loan. Even if you don't have a job...Because when you finally get a job you're going to be one of us.

And to those people with no children but who think they'd like to have them some day to fulfill their lives. Remember: With fulfillment comes responsibility.

God has a sense of humor though and he must see funny things in us. He must also have some love. We're still here and there are still great things that go on. There are great doctors who discover how to separate twins and how to put together a human being to walk again after it's said he won't. Those are all there as signs.

We’ve got to get the gun out of the hands of people who are supposed to be on neighborhood watch.

I did not want to turn to playing golf because golf is about as much exercise as shuffling cards.