We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.

At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president (George W. Bush) would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we've left on others.

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered.

I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't we go around fixing them?

We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.