The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.

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.

We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.

I am responsible for managing more schoolteachers' and firemen's money than anybody in the world. That's an enormous responsibility.

The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.

It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward.

Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.

Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.

As a pirate, she once undressed a fencing instructor using only her sword!

The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.

If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace and honor.

We live in a world of thought, but we think we live in a world of external experience.