Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.

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?

Yesterday was good, but let us dream and work hard to make tomorrow even better.

They left me. My parents actually left me! IN FRANCE!

In my bachelor days, the priority wasn't learning to cook.

everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home.

My children grew up very resourceful and strong in spite of them having to live with different families and that I had to drag them all over the country with me.

Respect and fear are two different things.

It may be that we cease; we cannot tell. Even if we cease, life is a miracle.

It's just so hard when you have a connection with someone and they just leave and you don't know if you'll ever see them again.

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon

Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.