Every day I wear my Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth medallions around my neck. When I think I'm having a bad day, I try to think about their day, and I get up.

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.

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.

YOU are what you're allowing yourself to be!

New things are always better than old things.

Don't yield! Keep up your courage! The same sun looks down on all of us!

Look, at the end of the day people have to respect people's differences. I am different than some people would like me to be.

Every love song I write is for Linda.

Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.

Realize that you earn income by providing value - not time - so find a way to provide your best value to others, and charge a fair price for it.

You can't live life without an eraser.