Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.

[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.

Let all children come unto me.

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.

You can't tell parents to teach children the value of work when we don't have jobs and the jobs we have don't pay a decent wage. You can't tell children to achieve and then let them go to broken-down schools with teachers who don't care. We need a consistency of values in our public, corporate, and private lives.

I try to be a person of faith.