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

My grandpa didn't believe in hugging and kissing, or saying I love you. His love had to do with the way he treated you. When he said, We're going here, we're going there, he was telling me about life. That was his love for me. My love for him was listening to what he said, keeping out of trouble, doing right, being fair.

In spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women.

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.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play.

You can't compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful.

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.