Do ballet and play football. Sing and dance. Laugh and cry.

I think leading by example is important, as I know the next generation is watching us.

Fighting for social justice is not about leaving the mainstream. It is about being right in the middle of it.

Let us not aspire to four-year goals but rather forty-year goals.

When a young person is not eating three meals a day but still getting perfect grades at school, or when a young person deals with trauma at a young age yet still makes it to college, these are the things that inspire me.

I will go to my grave wishing that I did more. Wishing that I didn't sleep as much. Wishing that I didn't waste so much time. Wishing that I fought harder.

I know our kids will be OK, as long as they listen more to their mother than to me!