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

I was always a relatively quiet and introspective kid.

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

Look at it this way: this administration is taking unprecedented steps to make sure that the government's secrets remain private while simultaneously invading the privacy of its citizens... Many innocents must be violated so that a few guilty people can be stopped. It's a digital stop-and-frisk.

A lie is like a cat: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or it’s really hard to catch.

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.

One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man.