My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent.

My career has been my craziest adventure.

I can't complain about my career, that's for sure.

If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.

My father's side of the family was very active in education.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

I don't want Washington - let me be perfectly clear - I do not want Washington involved in local education decisions any more than I want them involved in common core. You know, common core was a state-created and state-implemented voluntary set of standards in Math and English that are comparable across state lines.

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.