The best way to appreciate your secretaries is to imagine yourself without them. If you take time to do this, I know those individuals are going to be in for a great time this week. Our history is replete with lamentations about the sorry state of our schools. The reality is that American public education has provided an intelligent, creative, problem-solving workforce that enables America to continue to be a world leader. In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
Most talents are, to some extent, a gift.
Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. There is no one luckier than one who thinks himself so. I can help them. My heart goes out for the presumably fortunate rich who are not charitable. Nobody can help them.