Home is really where education does begin.

Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.

America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal of tolerance, freedom, education, opportunity.

I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.

Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of the human experience reaching back infinitely far is available to you?

My wife, the star I steer by.

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.