Unexamined wallpaper is classroom practices and institutional policies that are so entrenched in school culture or a teacher's paradigm that their ability to affect student learning is never probed.

Because we were Russian, sadness came naturally to us. But so did reading. In my family, a book was a life raft.

The beauty of writing is imagining new endings to a time of darkness, like burning off a morning fog with the heat and clarity of the sun.

He could never be anything more than what he was: the inheritor of weakness and unbridled emotion, a creature possessed by the past, and carrying its curse forever into the future--

Every one can master a grief but he that has it.

'Rent' was my first professional job, ever.

To have opposition ? We have it, and you can go and meet with them. We have some of them within the government, we have some of them outside the government. They are opposition. We have it.

It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.

I found the one, he changed my life, but was it me that changed?

Corporations no longer try to fit square pegs into round holes; they just fit them into square cubicles.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.