I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.

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.

I succeed in almost everything I do. My secret is persistence.

My brother William is a fisherman, and he tells me that when he is in the middle of a fogboundsea the water is a color for which there is no name.

He is not rich that possesses much but he that covets no more and he is not poor that enjoys little but he that wants too much.

One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?

We are destroying capitalism to pay for socialism.

That is kind of you, my lord. But I will never dance with you.' Which, of course, made it the goal of Leo's life.

As terrifying as sharks are, I find it far more terrifying, the idea of being trapped on the bottom of the ocean with a ticking clock and running out of air.

Bring mine unopened, with a napkin and an opener. (Blaine) What? Afraid I’m going to spit in it, big boy? (Aimee)

Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.