Until the American majority is willing to live within its means, it can hardly force its political leaders to do so.

Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.

The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.

Americans must either choose big government and be willing to pay for and submit to it, or they must move toward smaller, less intrusive government and be willing to enjoy fewer government programs.

No matter what the Constitution says, it won't endure if the people don't closely read it and demand that it be followed.

The only person who can fix education is the student.

Real value means people value-and creating value really means helping people choose better lives.

The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring.

Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.

Education means the ability to think independently and creatively, and development of the skill of applying one's knowledge in dealing with people and situations in the real world.

Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.

It’s not the dead people you got to worry about… It’s the living that are scary.

I want to believe that memories, even sad and painful ones, should not be forgotten forever.

You think the dead we love ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble?

When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about how the world worked and about how safe I was.

Ironically, the people who do not need Israel are gradually taking over Israel, and they're actually pushing out people who so need it.

Liver is my number one most hated food. Oh, God, I get sick talking about it!

I enjoy meeting someone and then really getting to know them and then falling in love.

I'm a pretty emotional person.

What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend.