A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.

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?

The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.

Love is an afternoon of fishing when I'd sooner be at the ballet. Love is eating burnt toast and lumpy graving with a big s

And one of the most important values of Barack Obama is that he will always level with the American people.

I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.

The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.

I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

The real hallmark of learning is transferring what you’ve learned into new contexts.

Good journalism is good business practice; good business supports great journalism.

The Church is not a political power, nor a political party, but rather a moral reality, a moral force.

Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.