Education has fundamentally changed my life. It's perhaps the mission of my life. I'm wed to it in a very powerful and personal way. And I chose the pathway that I believe could make me the most significant on changing the outcomes that we see now in North Carolina.

The only life worth living is the one we take responsibility for choosing.

Alexandra Stoddard

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Fay Weldon

Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.

Nalini Singh

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

John Dryden

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

Camille Anna Paglia

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.

Michael Shermer

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering.

Andrew Jackson

Respect is what we owe love, what we give.

Philip James Bailey

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Will Rogers

Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology.

Jay Chiat

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

Albert Camus

I looked at some of the statues of Jesus they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.

Cat Stevens