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

If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what you're saying carries through.

While fathers are pleasant figureheads, there is a special bond between children and their mothers. 'Do you help your mother clean up the house?' I asked one girl of seven. 'No,' she sweetly replied, 'I help make the mess.' It's a dirty job but somebody's got to do it.

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

Gray hair is God's graffiti.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

We go out of our way to make people so different,... to punish them because of color, because of sex, because of size, and the game starts.