In my generation, we learned how to be leaders by being exposed to and involved with adults who empowered us and gave us a sense that we could choose things. We've let down the generations coming behind us and we are trying to re- establish that connection.

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

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

Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.

I don't care what my children choose to do professionally, just as long as within their choices they understand they've got to give something back.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

You can't tell parents to teach children the value of work when we don't have jobs and the jobs we have don't pay a decent wage. You can't tell children to achieve and then let them go to broken-down schools with teachers who don't care. We need a consistency of values in our public, corporate, and private lives.