If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

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.

A Genius always admires the choices of the most Confident Fool!

If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us walk together...

There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.

In life as in football, fall forward when you fall.

The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.

Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors

The more you expand your awareness, the more naturally you will be present without effort.

I'm going to prove the haters and doubters wrong. I like when the doubters try to say that I'm (not still) elite or that I'm too old. I'll use that.

Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day.

Different tenses and perspectives offer you different things. It helps to distinguish the world that they are in.