"Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school."

"Every sunset is a reminder that the essence of humanity is our ability to connect."

"The echoes of eternity remind us that hope is the anchor of a weary soul."

"It is a quiet truth that the richness of existence is found in simple harmonies, not superfluous splendors — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state."

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you."

"There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world."

"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage."