To increase student engagement and ownership of learning, we should give students opportunities to do meaningful work - work that makes a difference locally, nationally, and globally.

Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.

You are on your own in a big world, in which you are one of many nations, some small, some medium sized, some large. You are nobody's boss and nobody is your boss.

Some things youll never know, and some things youll wish you never knew.

I am persecuted because of my writings, I think, therefore, that I should write some more.

Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.

For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line.

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

The greatest thing in the world is not in dying rich but leaving the richness behind for the world to treasure.

I have been talking about that for a long time, but it's very, very important to me [to unify the country.]

I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.

We can land men on the moon, but, for all our mechanical and electronic wizardry, we cannot reproduce an artificial fore-finger that can feel as well as beckon.

Flower lifted a brow, dubious. 'You have to pay for a place to be dead in?' Moon shrugged. 'Sometimes, in cities. It’s a groundling thing.

Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.

Imagine it. Use all your strength and imagine it exactly. And it will happen that way.

…was designed to protect his heart, to bind me and bribe me to stay with him no matter what. He was giving everything he had.

Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.