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

You are in charge of your own attitude whatever others do or circumstances you face. The only person you can control is yourself...worry more about your attitude than your aptitude or lineage.

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.

Dr. King used to say, 'I was sitting in the back of the bus, but my mind was always up front.' Don't let anybody tell you that you can't do it. You aim high and you work very hard and now I think it's clear that you can be anything you want to.

We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.

Each American must remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.