Football is like life - it requires perseverance self-denial hard work sacrifice dedication and respect for authority.

Literature adds to reality it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

Also they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children's learning and as individual mentors.

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters the ethical constraints that this research requires.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership but raising children isn't. Hey it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

A functioning robust democracy requires a healthy educated participatory followership and an educated morally grounded leadership.