Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote 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.

A spy novel?” Dagmar asked. “You two are talking about a spy nov

A rose's prick is better than a daisy's kiss.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermit-tent gloom.

I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules.

People carry around resentment for years! And that creates daily stress.

..and me holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands

A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.

I'm not quite as limber, but for my peers and my age group, I'm still top notch!

all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.

Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers.