Consumer sales depend on the habits and behaviors of consumers, and those who manipulate consumer markets cannot but address behavior and attitude. That is presumably the object of the multibillion-dollar global advertising industry. Tea drinkers are improbable prospects for Coke sales.

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

Independence used to be the ticket for liberty. But today, security and freedom, whether it’s in the Arab Spring, whether it’s in Iraq or whether it’s right here in the United States, means working cooperatively and interdependently with others.

Injuries too well remembered cannot heal.

The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.

Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.

Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become subjects of tolerance and respect, if not always affection.

Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.

I divide the world into learners and non-learners.

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures. I divide the world into the learners and nonlearners.