I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.
It's not my job to dream your dreams. It's my job to make your dreams become a reality.
I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.
A strong mentor can help a young woman find and advance in the career of her dreams that otherwise may have seemed impossible.
If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.
The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer.
I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong.
Jackie Chan, I've known him, he's a great guy. I know he's very watchable and fun. He's perfect, actually.
There are a lot of great athletes who stop working out, and they get out of shape like everybody else in their 30s and 40s.
I have always been a great fan of Peter Chan and many other great directors who specialize in anything outside of action.
America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.
Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken.
The Comedy Store in LA, it's a really loose room and it's really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage.
Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.
