The government cannot avoid the issue of homelessness any longer.

I failed to realize that homelessness is an attitude, not a lifestyle.

We may have increased their well being, but homelessness and not having financial income still has a huge effect.

It will give us all prosperity, abundance, a life of ease, freedom from poverty, disease, hunger, homelessness and more.

Many of my students face things from teen pregnancy to domestic violence, homelessness, health care issues, the list is long and very long.

Why have our breast cancer charities not come close to finding a cure for breast cancer, or our homeless charities not come close to ending homelessness in any major city?

And for those living in the most dehumanizing conditions of mental illness within homelessness and incarceration, the music and the beauty of music offers a chance for them to transcend the world around them, to remember that they still have the capacity to experience something beautiful and that humanity has not forgotten them.

Nathaniel's story has become a beacon for homelessness and mental health advocacy throughout the United States, as told through the book and the movie The Soloist, but I became his friend, and I became his violin teacher, and I told him that wherever he had his violin, and wherever I had mine, I would play a lesson with him.