We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.

Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.

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

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

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.

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

Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but don't count on them.