If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.

Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.

Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.

It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.

If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.

The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.

When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, Let all children come unto me.