Children Teach Us To Be

History Does Not Pose Problems Without Eventually Producing The Solutions.

I Worry About The Kids Who Have Too Much. As A Parent Living In A So-called Good Neighborhood With Children Who Went To Private High School, I Found Myself Spending Much Time In Parent Groups Worrying About Alcohol, Unsupervised Parties, And Parents Not Being Parents.

Unless Children Have Strong Education And Strong Families And Strong Communities And Decent Housing, It's Not Enough To Go Sit In At A Lunch Counter.

I Grew Up In A Very Religious Family And It Is The Motivating Force To Every Thing I Do. I Am Fortunate To Have Had Adults All Around Me Who Really Lived Their Faith, In Helping Other People And Doing The Best You Can Do. The World Wasn't So Wonderful Back Then, With Segregated Rule In The South. But We Were Never Hopeless And We Never Despaired Because We Had Adults Out There Struggling With Us, Being There For Us, And Buffering Us.

Never Work Just For Money. Money Alone Won't Save Your Soul Or Build A Decent Family Life Or Help You Sleep At Night. We're The Richest Nation On Earth, With The Highest Number Of Imprisoned People In The World. Our Drug Addictions And Child Poverty Are Among The Highest In The Industrialized World. So Don't Ever Confuse Wealth Or Fame With Character.