Service is what life is all about.

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.

Rome wasn’t built in a day, but that's because they never used Cosmic Ordering.

...even good marriages sometimes involve flinging a remote control at the wall.

Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self.

As a general thing people marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age when they do not really know what their own kind is.

We Americans, in most states at least, have not yet experienced a bear-less, eagle-less, cat- less, wolf-less woods. Germany strove for maximum yields of both timber and game and got neither.

Cats are more interesting, let's face it. Dogs are loveable and a bit boring.

How can there not already be a rapper named 'O'pinion'?

The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are.

I never killed anyone. I avoid going over that edge by writing about a guy who has taken a flying leap over it.

Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.