I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.

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.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.

Psychologists pay lip service to the scientific method, and use it whenever it is convenient; but when it isn't they make wild leaps of their uncontrolled fancy.

Americans are going to see that as the more religious a Muslim is, the more likely they're going to end up somehow fighting for ISIS' cause.

While we live, let us live.

The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.

My friends call me George, GM, or Georgia. But most people who know me from when I was little call me Georgia May.

At this particular time, I probably am more comfortable with myself. Just now I'm having a lovely time.

If the argument is that failure helps you succeed, well, so does success and it's quicker. This suggests at least one reason for trying to succeed.

An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care.

I don't want people to be afraid of health or illness or mortality, because it's a natural part of life.