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

Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at night. We're the richest nation on Earth, with the highest number of imprisoned people in the world. Our drug addictions and child poverty are among the highest in the industrialized world. So don't ever confuse wealth or fame with character.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

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.

I also grew up with community co-parents who looked out for each other. They looked out for children and tried to be the hands of God. They tried to live their faith.

There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.

Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.