It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.

You can't be what you can't see.

Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.

Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.

It's the new slavery. It came out of the drug laws and it really is something we're going to have to confront, but I don't see enough people up in arms about that. We need to be.