The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion.

Every time I finish a book, I say to an imaginary god that I do not believe in, 'Please let me live to write another one.'

Life is in God's hand.

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.