The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction

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

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.

Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind. If you do, you're going to be left behind.

Service is what life is all about.

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.