Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

The committee has an obligation to give you a choice. The members have the obligation and the right to make that choice.

There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.

In addition to wreaking havoc on our bodies, anger close our inner door, making us feel isolated and distrustful, hindering communication.

The competition is very stiff. Brian Williams has proved himself as a credible news anchor (at NBC), and Bob Schieffer has done the same (at CBS). But as Peter and Tom (Brokaw) and Dan have always said about the competition, it makes us all better.

I have the students for six hours a day. The community has them for 18 hours, plus prenatal and early childhood. I don't believe the schools create (the achievement gap), but our responsibility is not to add to it. We won't eliminate the gap until the community makes education a priority, but the schools can't wait for the community to do its part.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.