We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

Look if you ask a child 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath ' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.

Well certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.

I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I've definitely been through it - not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength.

God is stronger than their strength more loving than their uttermost love and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others they have obtained the infallible proof that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives one for myself and one for the world.

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.