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.

I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.

So often we think we have got to make a difference and be a big dog. Let us just try to be little fleas biting. Enough fleas biting strategically can make a big dog very uncomfortable.

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.

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

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

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.