"Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called 'It Takes a Village.' And a lot of people looked at the title and asked, 'What the heck do you mean by that?' This is what I mean. None of us can raise a family, build a business, heal a community or lift a country totally alone."

"Only the absolutely determined people succeed."

"To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect."

"A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them."

"I may not always be offered work, but I'll always have my family."

"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow."