My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people so there's no virtue in that it's the way one is raised.

I long for the raised voice the howl of rage or love.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping The Sports Authority which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind or whether the knowledge will be harmful.

A fact must be assimilated with or discriminated fromm some other fact or facts in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection and extended to all possible truth.

When we had to do book reports I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.

My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.