If we are to create a new agenda for family/work policies, employers and employees have to take a seat at the same table and recognize their mutual gains.

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?

A man begins to exist with a divine mission.

And it's just dawned on me that I might be the author of my own story, but so is everyone else the author of their own stories, and sometimes, like now, there's no overlap.

Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

There is no reward from God to those who seek it from men.

The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.

If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.

We can't disrupt polling places anymore, ... It doesn't serve any purpose. It just makes people mad.

The way we see is critical to understanding how others will read our compositions.

Who knew there were so many ghosts to be busted in the world?