What I want for children in our country and around the world is safe, stable and loving homes.

When you reach out to others in need, when you reach out to the world, you really do have a satisfying life by helping others.

In many developing countries, girls don't go to school. They stay home. They are at the water wells, bringing water back and forth to the village. Or they are doing chores, preparing meals, farming. Some cultures think girls and women shouldn't be educated, and those are very often the places where the treatment of women and girls is the worst.

When you read with your child, you show them that reading is important, but you also show them they're important - that they are so important to you that you will spend 20 minutes a day with your arm around them.

I like this idea of generation after generation helping children on the streets, kids who have run away fleeing violence. I like the whole idea of opening arms for children who have nowhere else to go, sleeping by dumpsters.

I've always loved children. When I was working with children as a librarian, I loved being with them and working around them.

We seldom give each other advice-I think that's the success of 25 years of marriage.