We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.

Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but don't count on them.

I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.

Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.

Luckily, I had incredible parents who, when they saw a problem, didn't say, "Why doesn't somebody do something?" They would say, "Why don't we do something?".

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

The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap, what are you going to do? It's a real crisis.