“We go to school so that when we grow up we can make lots of money, and we make lots of money so we can provide for our children, and we have children to provide for our retirement (because we don’t have any money left).”

“God gave us free will so that we might choose our own destinies. He left it up to us to achieve them.”

“The only working model of socialism I have ever seen is in an elementary school classroom.”

“Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived.”

“We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.”

“It's fine to have a dream girl, but you should ask yourself…would you be her dream boy?”

“We can throw all the money we want at the gates of hell, not going to make a dent. The solutions to all of our problems can be found through prayer.”