When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price.

I haven't met one parent or one teacher in Missouri who thinks we should balance the budget by taking money from kids' classrooms.

I love 'Sunday in the Park with George.' I saw that when I was just, just starting theater school, and I remember singing 'Finishing the Hat' or at least reading the lyrics to 'Finishing the Hat' and other songs from 'Sunday in the Park with George' to my mom to try to explain why I wanted to be an artist.