If you really know what you want out of life, it's amazing how opportunities will come to enable you to carry them out.

Some people wait so long for their ship to come in, their pier collapses.

You need a plan for everything, whether it's building a cathedral or a chicken coop. Without a plan, you'll postpone living until you're dead.

To dare is to do ... to fear is to fail.

The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.

There is always a double meaning in life...

How can men boast that they control their own destiny when they cannot solve the problems of war, racism, poverty, sickness, or suffering?

We need radical dietary improvement, and the earlier in life that change is made, the better. Just following a vegan diet or eating a few more vegetables is not enough.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.

I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.

I'm sick of carrying guns and beating up women.

You don't become the character

The goal of providing basic literacy and education to all the world's people is still the most basic development challenge.