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.

Hope is the best contraceptive.

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

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence... I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America.

People who don't vote have no call on political leaders!

It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need.