Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.

Service is the rent we pay for living.

As [Martin Luther] King said, it never cost anybody a dime to integrate the lunch counters. When you start talking about trying to deal with jobs and hunger and things that require investment, then that's really the tough stuff, because everybody wants to do right if it doesn't cost them anything.

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.

You have to have a fundamental change in the culture of policing, and who is the police person. How do they change? How do you learn from England and the other places, or Australia? In England, they don't carry guns on the whole. It's a different kind of mentality that does not demonize, and it's justified on race and income and class.

In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.