I brought you in this world, and I can take you out!

If you want to be seen, stand up. If you want to be heard, speak up. If you want to be appreciated, shut up.

When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.

Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts.

College was a wonderful time - except, of course, when it was trying to teach you things.

Some authority on parenting once said, "Hold them very close and then let them go." This is the hardest truth for a father to learn: that his children are continuously growing up and moving away from him (until, of course, they move back in).

...it was the arts, those noble expressions of the human spirit that are communicated through literature, dance, song, film, drama, painting and sculpture, among the many other such creative means, that helped articulate the sufferings of [these] people that were heard around the globe.