If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.

Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.

If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.

We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.

One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection.

We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.

Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.

It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.

Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?

[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it.

Art is my life and my life is art.

Sometimes Life seems to be a big QUESTION MARK. Don't know where it will lead us to....

I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'

No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.

To succeed, we have to be the party of change, we have to root out corruption in our own ranks and we have to be the party of solutions.

I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.

It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.