It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children -- of any age -- grow up and become peers.

Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable.

Schooling is what happens inside the wall of the school, some of which is educational. Education happens everywhere, and it happens from the moment a child is born-some say before-until it dies.

Last night he made it very clear that he wants me.And, god help me, I want him too.

Life is too short because we die.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

Imagination is the most powerful tool you have. You learn it from all the greats. The Star Wars films are secretive. Anything J.J. Abrams does is secretive. Those guys haven't done too poorly.

The promise of change doesn't always mean something changes.

The man who can get believers to praying would, under God, usher in the greatest revival that the world has ever known.

I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'

The advice I give to all adventurers is to seek a place where they may sleep in safety.

In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord.

It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.