Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.

One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.

If we want unity, we must all be unifiers. If we want accountability, each of us must be accountable for all we do.

We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable.

It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

We can leave our legacy only if we are willing to change - to go beyond partisan labels, and to solve the problems facing Washingtonians.

We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great.

I will never be able to create a budget from scratch with the amount of time that I have, but my instructions remain the same: Give me a budget that has no new revenue.

We are thinking ahead to long-term care, aware that many folks don't plan ahead and won't be ready. We want to see to it that people will have choices.

No one can attain moksha by pushing away others with contempt. So beware!

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

My girlfriend is Jewish. But it's easier to buy her a Christmas present and then break it into 8 pieces.

I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.

It may look like I'm moving but I'm standing still.

Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

He [Pierre Teilhard de Chardin] was thrilled with the idea that through work in the world human beings were participating in the ongoing extension and consecration of God's creation.

Don't take life so serious. It ain't no-hows permanent.