Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

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

God, please help us remember that all the darkness in the world cannot snuff out the light of one little candle. Help us to keep lighting our little candles until a mighty torch of justice sweeps our nation and the world.

I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.

Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.

Hope is the best contraceptive.