What I have come to believe is that joy is the twin sister of gratitude. I am most joyful when I am most grateful.

Sometimes you need to give people something that's for them, not just something that makes you feel good giving it.

Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations.

My heart is heavy, she thought. It’s not just a saying. It is what is—heavy, a great stone lodged in my breast, pressing down my whole being. How can I even stand straight and look out upon the world? I am doubled over into myself and, for all the weight, find only emptiness.

More than fifty years ago Sputnik dramatically raised the nation's awareness of what was lacking in science and math education in America. What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good.

Trouble can always be borne when it is shared.

life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough