Marian Wright Edelman

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

Service is what life is all about.

I broke with my religion in college.

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.