"A mentor is someone with a willingness to help others, who has a capacity to inspire, a determinatio..." — Kerry Kennedy

Those who suffer profoundly are granted profound wisdom.

Having a sense of humor is a part of being courageous. It's a source of strength.

In fact, most people who are bullies are people who have been abused in one way or the other in some other part of their life, and somebody who is bullied at school might come home and bully their younger siblings or their cousins or other people in their neighborhood, or in cyberspace.

When I started working in human rights, Eastern Europe was communist, South Africa was under apartheid and South Korea had military rule. All the changes have come about not because of the militaries or government but because small groups of people spoke out against what was unfair and unjust.