He who learns and learns and yet does not know what he knows, is one who plows and plows yet never sows.
The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack. '
The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.
America now is stumbling through the darkness of hatred and divisiveness. Our values, our principles, and our determination to succeed as a free and democratic people will give us a torch to light the way. And we will survive and become the strongernot only because of a patriotism that stands for love of country, but a patriotism that stands for love of people.
In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget.
I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be trained to be journalists. I've never been entirely certain that anyone can be trained to be a novelist in the same way.
Sometimes the best answers to prayer are the ones God doesn't answer.