We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.

When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.

Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more than anyone else, but they are not willing to settle for short-term relief if it means reducing their options later. They don't rob Peter to pay Paul, they face reality now.

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.