I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.

I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.

Danny Boyle

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Angela Davis

The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald's and Burger King equalize us all.

John Corry

Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.

Marc Andreessen

Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.

Paulo Coelho

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

Paul Johnson

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

For love is immortality.

Emily Dickinson

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.

Pope John Paul II

For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

Plato