Because we humans find stories such fascinating things, it’s all too easy to get interested in the story for its own sake, and lose sight of the purpose for which we set out to use the story.

It's not a question of whether the transition from old to the new goals, practices and metrics is going to happen. It's already under way.

Administrators need to shift from being controllers to enablers, so as to liberate the energies and talents of the teachers.

Success is less about what you get at the end but more about who you become in the journey.

The death camps seem easier to comprehend if we put them all into the basket of one vast generalization, which the term "death camps" implies, but in the process we mythologize or trivialize them.

We say keep your change, we'll keep our God, our guns, our constitution.

If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

When I can see my face in it [the liquid gold in the crucible] then it is pure.

If you must keep groaning, please try to do it in a rhythm I can dance to.

As we commemorate his birth each year in our holiday celebrations, we should remember that our joy in his first coming should prefigure the even greater joy we will feel at his Second Coming.

I'm gluten free, but that still allows me some chocolate!

Can you be compassionate even to those who have no compassion? If so, there is no finer karma that you can create.

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.