"Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done."

"The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development it's love - that one principle."

"Technology is not good, it's neutral."

"My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese."

"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."

"Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future."

"I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing."

"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."