Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

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 smile is a reflection of the simplicity of the soul.

More Miracles occur from Gratitude and Forgiveness than anything else

Association with other people corrupts our character

Let's not take Earth for granted, Let's Pay back.

Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual as I could.

On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.

The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.

On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar.

If you can't feed your baby, then don't have a baby.

I think there's a racial outcome to a lot of what goes in America, but I don't think race is always the reason.