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?

Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The nonprofit professional volunteer world is a laboratory for self - realization.

Your ability to overcome distractions will determine how long you can stay in solitude.

There's a place between passivity and violence. I'll meet you there.

You can't be loyal to others if you're not loyal to your own nature first.

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

The fact that you see a manifold world with different times, places and conditions -this exists only because of a lack of humility.

Hate is only conquered by love.

I'm not religious. I do have a baby - a four-month old girl - and that's a religion in itself.

The person who strays away from the source is unroofed and is like dust blown about by the wind.

In a day of footloose movements of people and of mixed marriages in the ancestry of the most desirable elements of the community we preach unabashed the gospel of the pure race.