Just in general, when we look at our school system, there is so much overlap with our criminal justice system in terms of our low-income youth..

Epidemic obesity is an enormous problem. It's a pendulum that's swung too far. We have to swing it back. So it should come as no surprise that soluti….

My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, its only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other resp….

When you have kids that have no jobs and are not in school, too often they get themselves into trouble. So what we have got to do is invest in educat….

But, working with directors whose history is in performance, I feel like there's a different kind of focus, as opposed to directors who are more pron….

Did you see that dress?” "I saw the dress.” "Did you like it?” He didn't answer. I took that as a yes. "Am I going to endanger my reputation if I wea….

If somebody says, "Oh, we're going to improvise!," I'm like, Oh, get me out of here..

Whatever is contained must be released..

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school….

Faith in faith is faith astray..

I was going to go to school to become a neurological surgeon..

Never take no from somebody who cannot say yes..

I remember feeling ashamed, for some reason. I was ashamed of my parents. I couldn't face some of my friends at school anymore, because I desperately….

You must always work..

You have to go, but I have to stay..

I moved to Chicago and began attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The students and teachers I met in Chicago were politically active….

You have to create something from nothing..

You can't be what you can't see..

You can't be pro-business unless you're pro education..

You can start your day over anytime..

You are dead- what am I speaking to?.