My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals than for battered women. That's not the message we should be sending.

My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.

No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.

My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books.

In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.

No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.

People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.

Life is Temporary, and in life everything is temporary

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

I heard the news today, oh boy.

Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?

Meditation is a bright, hopeful practice in which we learn to make our mind quiet so that the infinite, perfect light of enlightenment can flow through us.

In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized.

Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things.

Not what you do but how you do it, is the test of your capacity.

We're living in a world that says that if you engage in mass fraud, you'll be rewarded, but if you go down the street and steal an orange juice, you get arrested.

Somehow don't be bored, but if you must, use it in action. Use its destructive potential.