A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

Networking is simply the cultivating of mutually beneficial, give and take, win-win relationships. It works best, however, when emphasizing the "give" part.

I was at a photo shoot, and I was wearing a cross necklace that my mom bought me, and somebody made a joke like, 'Why are you wearing a cross? Like you would be religious.' And then they took it away. I was really affected by that. The whole thing made me realize that I do want a cross with me at all times.

Why would anybody not own a gun?

I not only couldn't read but often couldn't hear or understand what was being said to me - by the time I'd processed the beginning of a sentence, the teacher was well on her way through a second or third.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up.

I played lacrosse for a hot second, but I was mainly a swimmer - captain of my swim team.

The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.

You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.

In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.

The breakfast of champions is not cereal its the opposition.

Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt.

My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players.

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

When you are creating to the magnitude that I try to create, your brain is like a computer, and you need to refresh.

I got started acting by going to auditions that my mom found in the entertainment section of our local news paper. Then, I got a manager and started going out on more auditions.

We have more women serving in the military than any time in our nation's history, and yet the VA has not done a pivot to look at women's healthcare issues.

One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.

It's important to me to be in a relationship when I'm in one, but I'm not someone who needs to be in a relationship.

Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman!