I don't care what my children choose to do professionally, just as long as within their choices they understand they've got to give something back.

Hope is the best contraceptive.

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

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction

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

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.