One thing I've learned from 35 years in the classroom is that people learn best when they are laughing, when they are emotionally hit, that it's both the brain and the heart.

The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.

America has become the most unequal society among advanced countries, and rich people are now free to spend as much money on political campaigns as they wish.

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality fo result. Its equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

We're the richest economy in the history of the world. For the majority of Americans not to get the benefits of this extraordinarily prosperous economy, there's something fundamentally wrong.

Social change occurs when the gap between the ideals that people hold and the reality that they see every day gets too large.

We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.

It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War II, US top tax rates on the wealthy were never below 70 percent.

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

And the waitress is practicing politicsAs the businessmen slowly get stonedYes, they're sharing a drink they call lonelinessBut its better than drinkin' alone

Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.

A child's temperament appears to play another significant role in the child's own perceptions and worldview.

If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.

I think it's so wrong to play the victim. There's too many brave women out there that just won't even tolerate it, you know?

In each of its forms, love has an infinite scope of potential expansion, all of which I see leading to growth.

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.

Depression doesn't take away your talents - it just makes them harder to find.

Genuine and innocent wit is surely the very flavor of the mind.

In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.