We have strong evidence today that studying a foreign language has a ripple effect, helping to improve student performance in other subjects.

We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation gets a little stronger.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Every minister, lecturer and public speaker know the discouragement of pouring himself of herself out to an audience and not receiving a single ripple of appreciative comment.

A flow of happiness and abundance will manifest when you have reached the deepest level of yourSelf.

A trust-in the sense of a valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong-captures, more or less, my understanding of what it is to have a child.

We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.

I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It's more important.

You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.

The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.