There is no more powerful advocate than a parent armed with information and options.

Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology.

Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.

Every child can learn, and we mean it... excuses are not good enough, we need results.

The NEA is a terrorist organization.

It is inappropriate (to allow parents) to design the curriculum and to run the school.

I've done everything but tap dance across the table.

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.

There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.

It is legitimate for the Turks to try to defend themselves.

To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.

You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.

And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .

It saddens me how much fear we've instilled in ourselves.

My dream of course, as a writer and a person who's an entertainer, is: Grow up to be Mindy Kaling, don't grow up to be Mindy Lahiri.

There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault.

At the end I couldn't hear what the Queen was saying to me. But it was just great to see her lips moving.