I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet." Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they come from a land that you cannot enter, not even in your wildest dreams.

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got