There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.
The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation.
Most people presume my mustache is not real because it's much darker than my regular hair.
I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.
Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.
President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams.
The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.
Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.
In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.
It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.
When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.
The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.
Most urgent is the good First Job Program, that Lula plans to implement, which hasn't got off the ground.
I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 percent to write.
I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?
A simple way to address hidden curriculum issues is to spend time talking with staff and key leaders about their spiritual lives.
I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.
Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.
