Community colleges are certainly one of America's best-kept secrets.

Being a teacher is not what I do, it's who I am.

Because of the flexibility that community colleges afford, many students do not have to choose between an education and fulfilling other responsibilities - they can do both.

One of the things that make community colleges so special is they do not pick and choose their students - they work with all students.

Many of my students don't know that I'm second lady of the United States... because, you know, it's a community college.

I've seen with my own students, community colleges offer an affordable route to four-year college degrees and good paying jobs.

How is something authorised as 'feng shui compliant' he wondered. Is there a Chinese Ministry of Magic?

...the great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open...

There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.

It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer

Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.

And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it.