It's hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to love somebody.

Those who have something to say accept the fact that that's lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries.

My heart is so heavy when I see the reality of the Indian reservation and as an American, I know I am, too, responsible.

What I think it really means is: I'm a teacher. I am a teacher. I teach all the time, as you do and as all of you do-whether we know it or not, whether we take responsibility for it or not. I hold nothing back because I want to see that light go off. I like to see the children say, 'I never thought of that before.' And I think, 'I've got them!'

Dr. [Martin Luther] King was a human being. He had a sense of humor which was wonderful.

I married a man once and we had been married over a year before I found he preferred potatoes. I said, "I didn't know you loved potatoes." And he said that until he was about 13, he thought rice was potato seeds.

God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope.