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.

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.