When you have schools that are operating in the 20th century, and we're trying to prepare our children for the 21st century, even those children know they are not educated in the right way.

We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right.

I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.

Every bit of our lives revolves around how we get from one place to another and how long it's going to take to get there and what time of day you have to leave to do it.

No day is alike, nor should it be.

Acceptance is the sense of belonging.

Let me learn now where Beauty is; I was born to know her mysteries . . .

Over lowland, over snow and tundra span arches, raised by the rising sun. See: the light is winning! And the stream is streaming towards open minds and towards seeds dreaming of growth.

Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!

Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.

The Yoga of action, leading to union with the soul is fiery aspiration, spiritual reading and devotion to Ishvara.

Surfing frees everything up. It's just the best soul fix. Life should be stress free, and that's what surfing is all about.

Oh! death will find me, long before I tire Of watching for you; and swing me suddenly Into the shade and loneliness and mire Of the last land!

Acting is in everything but the words.

The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.