People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

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.

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.

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

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

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?