I'd like to be known for stepping up, and encouraging others to do the same.

Families don't have to match. You don't have to look like someone else to love them.

You threaten my son, you threaten me.

I want to see a revolution of kindness, because what happens is, when you're kind and you give, it's infectious. You give one time, and it's a great feeling and you want to do it again and again.

There are amazing people in this world that just need an opportunity.

In this world we live in, racism is alive and well in all venues. We immediately categorize people, and that's just not right.

If you don't parent, then don't cry about who your kid is becoming.

If there's not someone in your social circle who doesn't look like you, then shame on you.

When you stop knowing your kids' business and who they're hanging out with, you have stopped parenting.

As a parent, do the right thing and you don't get in trouble. If you lead a charmed life, you better act like it.

To restore a lost relationship is your choice

Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.

Trust is important. But once a promise is broken 'sorry' means nothing.

There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.

The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.

My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

India is my kid sister.

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.