Now, if you want to know my secret love, it is to be able to serve as an example.

An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.

if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise.

The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.

the trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!

You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.

While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well.