I suppose we make kids the repository of our highest ideals because children are powerless. In that way we can have ideals and ignore them at the same time.

If there's a single message passed down from each generation of American parents to their children, it is a two-word line: Better Yourself. And if there's a temple of self-betterment in each town, it is the local school. We have worshipped there for some time.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.

Kerry asks Americans to look at the evidence. Bush asks people to believe.

If women can sleep their way to the top, how come they aren't there?