We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

We've got to simplify, pull back all these layers of supposed complexity , and get down to the essentials. If we want people to engage with government, we should use the same tools that are getting them engages with companies and institutions in private life. If we want people to care about political issues, we should give them a way to understand and get involved in them.

Gavin Newsom

To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

David A. Bednar

A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.

Norah Jones

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

Raymond Chandler

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

Joseph Brodsky

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Thomas Jefferson

It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It's a funny old hippie thing, but it's true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness.

Danny Boyle

Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has promised, to the gift.

Martin Luther

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Samuel Goldwyn

When you start a family, couples give up their personal love to achieve a greater responsibility - to nurture their children into good human beings, and nothing should deter them from that goal until the kids are on their own feet

Siddharth Katragadda

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Charles Darwin