In a new friend we start life anew, for we create a new edition of ourselves and so become,for the time being, a new creature.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged.

We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes.

You don’t change the world with the ideas in your mind, but with the conviction in your heart.

Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.

The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.

Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done.

We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Laurel, David? Would you like to share the joke with the rest of the class?" he asked, one hand on his skinny hip.

When I see you smile, I feel a volcano of lovely eruptions happening within my heart!

When Fortune knocks, open the door, ' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?

Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.

Can't you home school me?" Nate pleaded. "You would never do any work." (Nate's mom) "Sounds perfect!

Music lovers always want to hear the best. It's about freedom of choice, we supply the music.

Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd.

My exit is the result of too many entrees.

The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.

Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.