You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.

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

I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans and the very dream that is America.

I need to work outside government, on my own.

You really can change the world if you care enough.