It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.

Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.

Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.

A flower is a gift of love from the universe given to you. So cherish it, enjoy it with a full blissful heart.

The music of kindness may be short lived, but its echoes are everlasting.

The true path to success is to find your joy and share it with others.

He can transform the incapability in you to do what the capables, even together, cannot do.

When you prepare, regularly work hard, create value, help others get what they want, and persevere... the life of your dreams is INEVITABLE.

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

at points in our lives, we have to choose the hills we’re willing to die on.

I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.