Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching.

What motivates me is everything that I have been a small part of.

Power, that's one thing, but love of family and of siblings is more important, is more powerful than any other power - at least earthly power, at least earthly power.

When people think about Michigan, they usually think about cars.

Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.

There is one right thing for the student to do, that is, to develop the habit of weighing worths, of sensing the relative values of the facts that he meets.

Your true passion in life is what you’d be doing if somebody handed you 100 million dollars.

If you are an angle, all you can give is boredom.

Somewhat dramatic things happen, and you don't even always notice them — that's what life is.

Heart power is better than horsepower.

Photography is choosing where to point your eye-cone.

I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning

When I meet a new person, I don’t see race or religion. I look deeper. We must learn to satisfy our conflicts peacefully and to respect one another.

I must still look perplexed because Gale delivers the next line very slowly. “Katniss…he’s still trying to keep you alive.” To keep me alive? And then I understand. The Games are still on.

I was very lucky that while I was a chess player in a country where chess was not a big deal, I happened to be in the one city where there was a sprouting chess team: Chennai.