We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation gets a little stronger.

We have strong evidence today that studying a foreign language has a ripple effect, helping to improve student performance in other subjects.

The roadmap to a rich, rewarding life is to follow your passion, to be willing to deviate, to never dull to the dawn of a new day and all of the possibilities it holds for adventure and discovery.

Having a poverty mentalityleaves you focusing on all thethings you don’t have, when inreality you probably already haveeverything you need.

I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right.' The rest of it I think stinks to the high heavens.

Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.

I really hated being the Norwegian girl in every single conversation in Australia, so I tried to make my Norwegian-ness invisible, speaking like whoever was around me.

Immigration is a sensitive topic.

I'm still talking about some heavy issues, but it feels a lot happier to me.

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

So different, this man And this woman: A stream flowing In a field.