A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.

When I started out as an activist, the issues were much clearer. There's advantage to the new media, but on the other hand, you miss the ability to frame an issue that you had when there were just three TV networks: CBS, NBC, and ABC. So the whole world could see the same police dogs. The same Bull Connor and his white tank. Now you've got narrow-casting. The media is all fragmented. It's so hard to get people to focus in a sustained way.

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

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.

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