We are not a problem people, we are people with problems.

We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.

I want to be remembered as one who tried.

I think of my life as a unity of circles. Some are concentric, others overlap, but they all connect in some way. Sometimes the connections don't happen for years. But when they do, I marvel. As in a shimmering kaleidoscope, familiar patterns keep unfolding

Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit

I am the product of many whose lives have touched mine, from the famous, distinguished, and powerful to the little known and the poor.

If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.