Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.

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?

And the book... and the work.. and the life goes to the whole beginning... and trying to answer how in real did we met.(Mr.Nobody, No One Tell)

Demons, werewolves, zombies--they're all supposed to be for entertainment purposes only.

There is always, always, always something to write about.

The spiritual life to me has always meant just one thing: emotion. Emotion is the poetry of life.

Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

I usually start by doing one or more color studies of the subject on a piece of canvas taped to cardboard.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art.

Once a decision is reached, stop worrying and start working.