Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

Children reinvent your world for you.

Happiness is the true beauty weapon.

I believe in using words, not fists.

It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.

Enthusiasm is the key but action opens the door.

We are called to love - it is our home.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.

It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree.

I have ten marathons under my belt, including four New York races and one Boston.

Your child’s future was the first to go with budget cuts.

I think if you see that no one is going to laugh at you for it, I think the concept of living nicely will be infectious. I believe there is room for the absence of cynicism.

I want to be able to write, that's my first love and I don't want to deviate from it even though I probably could have made a lot more money.

I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.