If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.

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.

Impossible only means that you haven't found the solution yet

If you allow any minute of your time to pass without converting it into products, you will soon realize that you just wasted a part of your life.

The most risky day in the world will be the day the bird will decide to swim and the fish will decide to fly. Stay glued to what you can do.

Until there is a reversal of the sense of values which cares more for size and appearance than for quality, there will be no solving the problem of food pollution.

I feel like there was justice. It was served through the legal system you know. Everything that I endured. It was all worth it.

It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.

As a veteran, you're a little more poised on that mental side. But athletically, I didn't really think I could get better.

At the end of our lives we all ask, did i live? Did i love? Did i matter?

To be radical is to grasp things by the root.

I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan.