Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did.

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

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

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

Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.