What we do with little kids today will matter in 20 years. If you don't get it right, you will have an unlivable environment. That's the crisis I see.

Critical thinking relies on content, because you can't navigate masses of information if you have nothing to navigate to.

Creative innovation requires knowing something. You can't just be a monkey throwing paint on a canvas. It's the 10,000-hour rule: You need to know something well enough to make something new.

Content is built on communication. You can't learn anything if you haven't learned how to understand language, or to read.

Your potential has no boundaries

Holy shit, " somebody muttered in the dark."A virgin, " sputtered another."I didn't know they still made them.""He just did.

Our thoughts of literary renaissance should always center themselves on the removal of superstition, meanness, indignity and ignorance.

Even if it's being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it's still only a temporary thing.

Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.

You can tell a lot about someone's personality if you know his star sign -Jesus, born on 25 December, fed the five thousand, walked on water -typical Capricorn.

So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.

We play at the world's most beautiful beaches but in the world's most challenging conditions. It is not like you play one match and you go back to air conditioning. We do it all day long.

Political audiences are not fun.

I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.