Adjusted for inflation, somebody going to college today to a state university, is paying about 300 percent of what her mom or dad did just 30 years ago.

It's better to fight because if you don't fight, you can't win. Besides, even when you don't win, you can change the game.

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.

It's so easy to focus on what could go wrong, on what else you could do before you try the thing you really want to do. No. Just get out there and try.

If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.

Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won't regret it.

If there's any lesson I've learned in the last five years, it's don't be so sure about what lies ahead. There are amazing doors that could open.

Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.

We don't win what we don't fight for.

President Obama believes in a level playing field.

It's a simple idea: We all do better when we work together and invest in our future.

The Highest Holy Heavens!

You have been called to a life of blessing, don't descend to that of curses.

The secret to writing a book is starting on page one and not stopping until you write the words "The End".

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

... please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish." "You most certainly were." "You are cruel, Evanna.

All things are photographable.

Change your plate. Change your fate.

The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon him. All nature loafs, while man alone works for a living.

You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.

Ideas are the very coinage of your brain.