Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.

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.

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

To forgive is a decision, to forget takes effort, to heal is a process, to believe again takes courage.

The difference between human and other species is, they eat each other when they have nothing to eat, but we eat each other while having everything.

When men and women produce a baby together for the first time, it's an absolute festival of mutual incompetence.From The Wife Drought

Tis better than riches To scratch when it itches.

If I don't fish in the morning, I fish in the evening.

In New York, it's a little bit more formal, a little bit more decorated, and there's a real appreciation for traditional style. Out here, it's casual, fresh, new, and almost humble.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

If we're bringing up kids that are so stupid that they kill themselves because of a song, what good are the kids in the first place ?