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.

Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.