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

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.

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?

Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The nonprofit professional volunteer world is a laboratory for self - realization.

when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus

Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.

Being creative is not being afraid of being lost.

My mom was a cheerleader and had me as a teenager. I remember her giving me some pom-poms and teaching me how to do some splits when I was 3 or 4.

We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

If they love you to death never die on them

I've been on the tour for 23 years and anybody who knows me knows that I am a jokester.

New Zealand are the best team in the world - the execution and accuracy of their skills were a lesson in modern rugby.

I don't really make decisions, I go with the flow.

You have the greatest chance of being happy when the voice you respond to is your own voice.