Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.
Marian Wright Edelman.
“Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.”
“You really can change the world if you care enough.”
“You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.”
“Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.”
“I've tried to teach what I learned all those years in my mother and father's house, all those things I didn't realize I was learning and that I never knew I'd be so grateful for. When you have love...”
“If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues,...”
“I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.”
“Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.”
“Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'”
“Values aren't buses... They're not supposed to get you anywhere. They're supposed to define who you are.”
“Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.”
“We hang on to our values, even if they seem at times tarnished and worn; even if, as a nation and in our own lives, we have betrayed them more often that we care to remember. What else is there to ...”
“You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living ins...”
“Does truth have a moral?”
“I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.”