When you make a commitment to a relationship you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

I didn't fully realize it at the time but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce in the next generation more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud or perhaps even think.

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty and that such equality may best and perhaps only be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.

The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law that is a very viable vision but instead of that we have quasi mob rule.

It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality freedom and opportunity for all people.

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

The perfection of our union especially our commitment to equality of opportunity has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said 'In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.'

Equality rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences wrongly understood as it has been so tragically in our time it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

Furthermore both Pennsylvania and New Jersey Departments of Environmental Protection have evaluated the sediment to be dredged and also found it to be not toxic.

I wanted to help raise awareness so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.

The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.

In Holland they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.

I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.

I also found that for myself since I've had no religious education it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage if that's what it is that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice and imitation and custom rear it up.

No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.

In his first year in office President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation investment and education.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

The education that prepared me was my general education classes which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

Poor people people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.