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

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.

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.

Blood is the symbol of the life sacrificed for sin.

He falls asleep believing he's been robbed, not knowing that the summoning of demons is almost always unwitting.

We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.

I'm thankful for performing as long as I am allowed.

Let's help people get on board with what God wants to give them, but what we don't want is the process. Everyone wants the product.

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

When will it no longer be necessary to attach special weight to the word 'woman' and raise it specially?

An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.

None are happy but by anticipation of change.

People don't settle for people. They resolve to be with them. It takes faith. You draw a circle in the sand and agree to stand in it and believe in it.