"I try to act out of faith."

"I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders."

"There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage."

"You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be."

"I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself."

"The beauty of the unknown is that kindness can heal wounds that time cannot."

"A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well."

"When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays."