"I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education."

"A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you."

"I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do."

"Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes."

"An idea is a delicate seed; water it with curiosity and protect it from cynicism. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"It is a essential truth that the seeds of triumph are sown in the quiet mornings when no one is watching — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The silent observer understands that the simplest acts of love resonate the loudest."

"It is a quiet truth that a dream nurtured by daily toil will inevitably outshine a wish born of idle hope — an essential principle for the reflective life."