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

Hope is the best contraceptive.

We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.

Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem.

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but don't count on them.