About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.

Michael Shermer

Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you, ever.

Holly Marie Combs

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

Samuel Johnson

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Jean Paul Sartre

There is no indispensable man.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ridiculous stuff happens when I travel.

Rebecca Lobo

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Hitherto, the rights and wrongs had seemed so beautifully simple.

George Orwell

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.

David Korten

Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive.

Jean M. Auel

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

Susan B. Anthony

The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.

Anna Ford