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You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it.

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.

No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.

I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.

When your will power is gone, you are helpless.

At the Superdome, a young man came up to me holding a baby. He'd run out of diapers. He'd run out of medicine. His baby was sick. The guy's saying, 'Help me! Take my baby.' What could I do? That's the definition of helpless.

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

I hate being helpless, and I hate having to ask people to do things for me.

I want to help the helpless, but I don't want to help the clueless.

I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.