You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.

I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did.

So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.