Classic music is th' kind that we keep thinkin'll turn into a tune.

Make a difference. Live a life that matters.

Act with integrity. Live up to your idea of who you are.

Many of us are fortunate to be blessed with the ability to succeed - not for our sole benefit, but so we may apply the result of our success to assist others.

You cannot brighten another's path without lighting your own.

To live an extraordinary life, you must resist an ordinary approach.

Apply true focus to what you do best.

Recognize your highest calling as early as possible in life.

Approach life knowing there will be plenty to go around. Be generous.

Proactively, and creatively, persist - day in and day out.

Recognize your highest calling as early in life as possible. Proactively and creatively persist, day in and day out. Leave an enduring legacy.

The usual state of nature is recovering from the last disaster.

Are our lives just the aggregate of the lies we've told? ('Lives' - the 'v' is silent.)

Love is the poetry of our feelings. But there are some horrible poems.

I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?

The highest and best use of our time that really matters over the next decade will be working to elect clean-energy candidates, especially in swing states and swing districts around the country.

Life always is now, but the form the now takes changes continuously. Most people equate the form the now takes with the now itself, and so they believe there are many different moments.

While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

I'm glad that Jewish kids are taught about the Holocaust and other stories in our history, but I wonder if there are ways that this information and narrative can be transmitted differently.

While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.