Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.
It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.
I grow old learning something new every day.
One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.
I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.
If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.
Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people.
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.
We need to put in place an economic system of governance for the euro-zone.
As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.
The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.
We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.
Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.
Mr is a lively and talented man, and a thorough chemist...
I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected.
Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.
People put limitations on their creativity, believing they have to rely on what they know and what they have done.
I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who didn't have to die.
