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

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.

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.

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.

I find it very hard to believe that people would prefer an awkward picture with me than a normal conversation.

What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.

The bashful are always aggressive at heart.

One must keep a few smiles aside to laugh at oneself on joyless days.

The marathon is a competition between your will and your possibilities

False shame only is harmful.

At some point, I told myself: the dress doesn’t own you, you own the dress! So act like it and attack.

The war had begun and nobody saw it. The storm was lowering and nobody knew it.

Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon.

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.