Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

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

Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher, a friend. It could be you. You never know when a little love, a little support will plant a small seed of hope.

In trying to make a big difference, don't ignore the small daily differences we can make.

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.

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