Because of the flexibility that community colleges afford, many students do not have to choose between an education and fulfilling other responsibilities - they can do both.

Being a teacher is not what I do, it's who I am.

One of the things that make community colleges so special is they do not pick and choose their students - they work with all students.

Many of my students don't know that I'm second lady of the United States... because, you know, it's a community college.

Community colleges are certainly one of America's best-kept secrets.

I've seen with my own students, community colleges offer an affordable route to four-year college degrees and good paying jobs.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

Every time you almost die, I almost die myself.

This is what it is for Asians to be part of - support affirmative action, even though it may be against their interest, but they feel it's a matter of justice.

I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.

The real is only one realization of the possible.

There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance.

Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life

I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.

There is a prayer that lives in the center of your heart. If you pray it, it will change your life. How does it begin?

Why do banks charge you a "non-sufficient funds fee" on money they already know you don't have?