“He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.”

If you don’t want to lose, you should wait for the right opportunity

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.

Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.

Vices are their own punishment.

The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.

Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

A man is known by the company he keeps.

United you will be more than a match for your enemies. But if you quarrel and separate, your weakness will put you at the mercy of those who attack you.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.

Beware of a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

A dog used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to bite them without notice.

Public schools in the late ’80s and early ’90s were a total mess… we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.

I had always been the theater nerd at Northwestern University. I knew I wanted to do acting, but I hated the idea of being this cliche – a girl from L.A. who decides to be an actress.

Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.

Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.

What I want to do first with education is my student loan idea. Basically, if you go into teaching and teach for five years, your student loans should be forgiven. It doesn’t cost that much.

I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.