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

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

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 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.

Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.

We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive... Once you hear a story, it becomes part of you. It can't die.

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

I want to be violated by insight.

If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.

If we want the most effective fighting force, we need to pick the most qualified capable man for the job, even if it's a woman.

If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.

Don't go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth.

If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.