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.

Service is what life is all about.

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.

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

Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher, a friend. It could be you. You never know when a little love, a little support will plant a small seed of hope.

Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.

Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.