Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.

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.

If you are anguished with your failures, you despise and accuse those very adversities and held them responsible for your debacle.

She smiled at him like a freshman invited to the senior prom. It made my blood boil.

Sing to your mountains because as you sing, they are being cast into the sea.As you sing, the portals of heaven are opening.

Since politics — until recently — has been a man’s world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.

He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.

I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!

What is necessary for the pubic realm is to shield it from the private interests which have intruded upon it in the most brutal and aggressive form.

And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.

What would be the fun in doing things you know are going to work?

Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.