“What did you do with the time and talents i gave you? God's question...”

“In the bible it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. I want you all to know, I'm keeping a chart.”

“Although we were not able to shatter that highest and hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you it has 18 million cracks in it, and the light is shining through like never before, filling us all with the hope and the sure knowledge that the path will be a little easier next time, and we are going to keep working to make it so, today keep with me and stand for me, we still have so much to do together, we made history, and lets make some more.”

“They [parents] can resist the impulse to "prove" their love by showering children with things they do not need and give them precisous time and attention instead.”

“What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities. ”

“The episodic, reactive, almost frantic pace of what is broadcast makes children feel and act frantic and shortens their attention spans and their patience for activities that take time and problems that don't yield immediate solutions.”

“Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what I think is right. ”