Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.

I've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and whether you frost it or not is up to you.

Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.