"To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard."

"We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves."

"My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point."

"My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism."

"If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement."

"In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum."

"People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me."

"The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer."