Political success is often dependent on the ability to be heard above the din of controversy and debate and to set a course with one's own compass.

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?

There is no necessity to live by the clock.

In the future, it may turn out that fossil fuels are the blood of the Earth and by extracting them may lead to serious consequences to the Earth's survival, and by association, that of the humans.

When someone hurts you time and time again, accept the fact that they don't care about you. Its a tough pill to swallow, but its necessary medicine.

Independence is paramount and freedom holds a lot of new possibilities, if all the chances are given at the right time.

I don't know what a world would be like if you do away with sexy images.

I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.

If you're constantly stepping outside of the character and judging them, you'll never really be able to fully engage because you'll always be slightly cynical.

Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.

Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.

A belief may be larger than a fact.