Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.

Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.

This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.

Unfortunately, I have to follow the law.

Without action, a vision is just a piece of paper. In education, we have lots of paper.

when someone dumps you, it's heartbreaking and insulting and horrible, sure, but being the one who breaks up is almost as bad.

I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.

One wound is enough to feed the open wounds of the sky.

Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.

The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.

Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.

I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.