I want people to enjoy the simplicity in the natural.
Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.
When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.
We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.
When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, - and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves.
A lot of the politics that is going on left and right at the moment is more about a protest, which we should respond to. It's not often about a policy. And that's why what you get is this strange coalition of different views of what the future should be, coming together in alliance to protest against the status quo.
Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.
People came to the All-Star Game to see the dunk contest.
A lot of charter schools are non-union schools that take a lot of teachers from alternative tracks, like Teach For America. They do this in part because a lot of charter schools have very strong ideologies around how they want teachers to teach. And they find that starting with a younger or more inexperienced teacher allows them to more effectively inculcate those ideas.