Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Americans want jobs. They want affordable health insurance. They want an education.

No two children learn in the same way. While we might agree that every American eight-year-old should be able to read and multiply, beyond those basics, there are few reasons to make every student follow the same path.

I don't know anywhere where the people are hungrier for education than South Sudan.

My wife and I - her more than me - are really strong Christians. Her whole life revolves around studying the Bible, Bible study, after-school Bible class she does for little kids on Wednesdays, teaches Sunday school.