Don't confuse having a career with having a life.

It takes a village to raise a child.

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.

The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

Every child needs a champion.

I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it.

We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential.

In the bible it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. I want you all to know, I'm keeping a chart.

You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard.

I work so hard to make that sure I'm successful. If you're positive and really excited and enthusiastic about what you're doing, it's going to happen, and it's going to happen big time.

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.

Cop families have guns in their houses.

The winter does what it can for its children.

The Olympics are what I work for. They're why I spend so much time in the gym.

Some directors are like it's their... nothing can change, nothing can move. I like collaborating, even when an extra has an idea, I like to bring to really have collaboration.

Education is anything that we do for the purpose of taking advantage of the experience of some one else.

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

If we can not love the person whom we see, how can we love God whom we can not see?