"If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time."

"The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about."

"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."

"The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place."

"I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they're dating or what clothes they're wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life."

"Wisdom principle 74 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 87."

"Every season of life has its own unique blossom, if only we take care to notice. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds."

"Wisdom principle 6 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 90."