If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through.

There is only one thing age can give you, and that is wisdom.

The English Language Amendment says above all, 'Let's see to it that our children, our young people, learn English. Let us not deny them the opportunity to participate in American life, so that they can go as far as their dreams and talents can take them.

Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.

Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.