"If the student fails to learn, the teacher fails to teach."

“I'll just try to keep my mind open to whatever comes my way.”

“If there is any honor in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an honorary Jewish citizen.”

“Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love.”

“Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from than babies know where they come from.”

“When you choose a show you really don't know where it's going to go. Sometimes things let you down and sometimes things just surprise you and fulfill you way more than you thought.”

“Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS.”

“There is an alarming increase of violence and harassment against gay people, something that is being legitimized by the regime as they brand homosexuality as something abnormal and dangerous to children.”

Source : "Situation in Russia". Personal blog at the European Commission website, ec.europa.eu. January 17, 2014.

“I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.”