We as educators need to reconsider our roles in students' lives, to think of ourselves as connectors first and content experts second.

I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

We're a superpower with a third world grid.

Your best teacher is the person offering you your greatest challenge.

Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

Natural gas is the future. It is here.

I don’t need someone to complete me, I need someone to make things a little bit better every now and again.

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

Personally, I think Julian Assange is a hero.

It is up to us, to everyone at Celtic Park, to build up our own legends. We don't want to live with history, to be compared with legends from the past. We must make new legends.

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.

Andy Pettitte is my friend...I think he misremembers.

It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find lists without a single woman mentioned.

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

Day by day and night by night we were together - all else has long been forgotten by me.