Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.

Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.

Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.

Being superintendent or the superintendent's chief of staff is important work, but there's no chance it's as difficult as being a teacher, and I hesitate to say that it's as important.

In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.

Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.

Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.

Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.

If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.

Expressing truth is hard work.

To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

If we didn't have nightmares, we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams.

Your maturity is based upon your responsibility.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.

When the record of any human life is set down, there are three pairs of eyes who see it in a different light. There is the life as I see it. as others see it, and as God sees it.

You can give joyfully only when you have found something so valuable within yourself that everything else does not mean so much to you anymore.

Morning in the city is not a real morning; morning of the shepherd, that is the real morning!

I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.

Oh, the naive Obama State Department. They say we can't kill our way out of war. Really? Tell that to the Nazis. Oh wait, you can't. They're dead. We killed 'em.