What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence... I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America.

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

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.

We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic ethic of how we resolve our disputes and to place an emphasis on peace in the way we relate to one another.

The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.