Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.

The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

Dudley thought for a moment. It looked like hard work.

Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.

reach isn’t describable in terms of cause and effect anymore: it’s simultaneous.

The sweet reward for preparation often does not come in the youthful twenties or staid thirties. It arrives - with accrued interest - in the mature years.

If we internationalize everything, we end up with rules that stifle freedom and innovation.

What's Walmart, do they sell like wall stuff?

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.

What's a word, a talisman, to hold against the world?

We are all God's children. But world-peace-dreamers, world-peace-lovers and world-peace-servers are undoubtedly God's choicest children.

Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.