"Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live."

"We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed."

"We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together."

"It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile?"

"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."

"A life well-lived is a testament that the roots of true happiness grow deep in the present moment."

"The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy."

"What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?"