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.

Let all children come unto me.

I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do. The world wasn't so wonderful back then, with segregated rule in the South. But we were never hopeless and we never despaired because we had adults out there struggling with us, being there for us, and buffering us.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

There are so many noises and pulls and competing demands in our lives that many of us never find out who we are. Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in other people.

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.

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