The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.
When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.
The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.
Faith is building on what you know is here so that you can reach what you know is there.
One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.
A mind becomes a detriment when it acquires more intelligence than its integrity can handle.
Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.
They say I need to be seasoned; they say I need to be stewed. They say, 'We need to boil all the hope out of him -- like us -- and then he'll be ready. '
Media literacy is not just important, it's absolutely critical. It's going to make the difference between whether kids are a tool of the mass media or whether the mass media is a tool for kids to use.
All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit.