Almost every measure of education, or cognitive ability, or talent is now associated with a higher income. All this is raising the incentives for people to invest in education, training, and in attaining new skills.

You don't want to keep a person with her talent in perennial handcuffs. To have someone with her dazzling writing ability turn to Lincoln is a great boon to the Lincoln field.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but what you should have accomplished with your ability.

The predictors of a good education are virtually impossible to measure,

Definitely not. He's got great talent. He shows a lot of flashes of ability when he's on the field. I look forward to when he's out there knowing everything he's supposed to do and does the techniques the correct way.

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.