Don't let our outside labels or how fervent we look or zealous we are or how righteous we seem; that's not how you measure yourself against other people. Everyone is a child of God; if we really believed that, we'd treat each other better.

I never hear anything about education. Education - I guess it's just not sexy enough. And everybody claims to love their children and our children are the most important thing, but if that's the case, how come we never hear more about education as an election issue?

I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.

If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid.

There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins.

Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.

There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.