While the word bisexual was technically correct, I would only slowly come to use it to refer to myself in part because of the derisive connotations. But, in addition, it would seem to me woefully inadequate and impressionistically inaccurate.

There is no wrong time to do the right thing.

I had set about trying to make myself more polished than a country boy would be.

Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.

Elections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want.

You don’t become a teacher to make a world of money. You become a teacher to make a world of difference.

I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture.