In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.

My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals than for battered women. That's not the message we should be sending.

My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.

No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.

My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books.

No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.

People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.

Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.

Only what is seen, appreciated, and loved will be missed in its absence which makes humans creatures of habit

A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near.

it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.

I go into Daunt Books in Marylebone every couple of weeks. My wife Sara demolishes books, but I only buy stuff occasionally. I like boys' things, spies and the Cold War.

The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

I live by two credos: If you don't ask, you don't get. And most things don't work.

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends