One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.

Why would you hand the keys to the car back to the same guys whose policies drove the economy into the ditch and then walked away from the scene of the accident?

The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president.

America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.

I get along very well with Paul Ryan personally. We have very deep differences on policy issues. But we express them civilly.

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

There is no higher religion than human service.

When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.

Atheism, a term which will, I'm sure, eventually become as unnecessary as round-earthism.

The love is what's left at the end because it's the bedrock, fundamental reality that gets hidden all the time, but never really goes away.

I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.

The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.

We find things where we look for them.

I always had difficulty as a model just being myself. I can be very shy, and I used to have a lot of anxiety about working on set.

Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some place in every course of education.