Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

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.

[T]he greater the sense of awe with which a text was regarded, the more complete might be the amnesia as to the original circumstances of its composition.

Careful with your life.

You know the life you have committed yourself to often ends in death.All life does.pg 217

Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.

The group of stupid people collectively treats or makes an intelligent amongst them look like duffer and a fool living in a big network of enlightened minds even starts behaving sensibly in life.

Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.

I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

I was lonely driving here tonight so I hugged the road.

I want us all to fulfill our greatest potential. To find our calling, and summon the courage to live it.

The Modern Self must confront the shadow of hubris.