A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven.

My father established our relationship when I was seven years old. He looked at me and said, “You know, I brought you in this world, and I can take you out. And it don't make no difference to me, I'll make another one look just like you.

Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to prove to these children who never made the mess in the first place that education is worth the trouble, our schools have to inspire them so they can do what they ought to do.

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

Every father says the same thing: “Where's your mother?”

People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often.