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

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?

show me your eyes and i should tell who you are and what would your future

A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators.

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

Donald [Trump], is great at - at the one-liners, but he's a chaos candidate.

We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves.

I think we have gone too far into the PC culture. But there's a limit to how far we can take that.

My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.