When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.

A child can educate just about anybody.

We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.

It's confidence; it has to be something good about getting old. One of the things is that you just don't stress about some stuff that made you so worried.

It's important for survival that children have their own experiences, the kind they learn from. The kind their parents arrange for are not as useful. Good parents are the hardest to get rid of.

All solutions are temporary, so why not go for duct tape?

I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.