None of the candidates are ever perfect, ok? Then you have to get them in there and you have to hold them accountable. You have to make noises.

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.

Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling.

It's when the seed grows up that it is known as a tree. Nobody calls the "seedlings" as "trees" and no seedling is ever useful because it doesn't produce fruits! You got to grow up!

I look back at the past as fond memories but I'm able to move forwards in a new light, like I'm reborn.

He thought others were small; that was his greatness.

There is more sexism in a year's worth of movies than actually exists in a woman's entire lifetime.

Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn’t.

My mum said she remembers me asking her if she'd take me to ballet lessons when I was about two and a half. She said I could barely speak, and yet was asking for ballet lessons.

Never stand idly while people commit what you know to be an injustice! Injustice only leads to more injustice!

Greed often finds more pleasure in taking from others than in giving to itself.

We all make decisions. But in the end, our decisions make us.