Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

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.

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

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

No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.

I try to be a person of faith.