It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books.

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

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

Your education never stops and college is just the beginning. You come out of college with a huge advantage in that you've ideally and more times than not you've come out with a love of learning and that's what matters above all.

If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.

Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.

We all know the old expression, "I'll work my thoughts out on paper." There's something about the pen that focuses the brain in a way that nothing else does. That is why we must have more writing in the schools, more writing in all subjects, not just in English classes.