It would be pretty impossible for us to separate our personal and professional lives, because so much of what we do comes from how we were raised and what we share and who we are.

You can never separate yourself from who you are. You bring your whole self to everything that you do.

To me, I think the core values that will help create the world that we're striving to live in are constant.

I went to law school because I understood what the power of the law is to make a difference in people's lives.

You need the activism. You need people who are organized and willing to bring light to injustices in society.

I think that the notion of justice and the issues and values that I understood growing up and [have] continued to embrace throughout my life and into my career have been the same.

I know that so many women don't have a choice. They could lose their job if they say, 'I need to leave because I don't have childcare.'

You need people who are shaping and advocating for the actual policies and structural changes that need to occur in order to address those issues. That's where the politics and t

Hillary [Clinton] has a really broad approach to engaging people around policy precisely because she understands that there are so many different dimensions to each issue.

I think throughout my life I've had an appreciation for how all of these things have to come together in order to realize and then sustain change.

Being a parent, I'm acutely aware of how hard it is to get good childcare.

I didn't like anything. Maybe I was afraid. That was it - I was afraid. I wanted to sit alone in a room with the shades down. I feasted upon that. I was a crank. I was a lunatic.

The greatest challenges humans face throw-out their lives are two:1- the challenge of where to start2- the challenge of when to stop

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

Even though people like to say Destroyer [albom] is gibberish and all that, I usually know exactly what I'm saying at every single moment.

This search for happiness can knock us out of sync with God. As the life of Jesus makes clear, keeping in sync with God is about obedience. Any other pursuit will get in the way.

But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.

Writers tell more truths, and more lies, than most.

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.

I don't see myself a Great Black Hope. I'm just a golfer who happens to be black and Asian. It doesn't matter whether they're white, black, brown or green.