Surprising choice proves hardest to come by. Most choices, even the disastrous ones, are predictable.

Under every layer of pain, another layer of recovery lies in wait, the sweet, forever surprising truth of endurance.

...our students should be playing Beethoven with research processes, but instead we are hearing Mary Had a Little Lamb.

I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.

I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven.

When you're good at making excuses, it's hard to excel at anything else.

People have choices in this life. They should exercise them responsibly.

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.

Whatever the deal is with other countries, we want a better deal for America's workers.

He’s a tough little son of a biscuit eater. (Bubba)

Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides- what a person is character and what a person does- competence.