Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.

If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.

The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.

Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.

Because they are children and for no other reason they have dignity and worth simply because they are.

There is no problem so great it cannot be solved.

There is something profoundly satisfying about sharing a meal. Eating together, breaking bread together, is one of the oldest and most fundamentally unifying of human experiences.

If you can't solve it, it's not a problem - it's reality.

If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality.

The best time to start giving your children money is when they will no longer eat it. Basically, when they don't put it in their mouths, they can start putting it in their bank.

The clock in the church tower said 4.32, as it had done for three hundred years. It was right once a day and that was better than no clock at all.

I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know.

A horn has that voice quality, and an electric guitar can emulate that. But playing an acoustic, the notes don't sustain like that.

Journeys start from where we are. Everything starts from where we are. Where we are is where we're supposed to be.

The true Christian does not need to be reminded that he has a crucified Master. He often thinks of Him.

If diversity is O.K. for God, it ought to be O.K. for Republicans.

So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor.

Those who desire only techniques will never understand this art. It is everything beyond that

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

Every walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable.