With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

LouisFerdinand Celine

Time. There is much time left and lots of life seasons. There is much to see, to do, and to be.

Adam Young

The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community, now so shattered by war and poverty and racism. I have great faith in the power of women who will dedicate themselves whole-heartedly to the task of remaking our society.

Coretta Scott King

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

Benito Mussolini

I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.

Mandy Patinkin

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!

Terry Pratchett

I want my family to resemble the family I came from.

Katherine Heigl

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

Mark Twain

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

Ovid

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Nathaniel Branden

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

Angela Davis

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

Carter G. Woodson