The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's 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.

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.

Lack of luxury is not a reason to push others to poverty. ~ Michael A. van Doorn, Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul

Don’t rebel, but give God the opportunity to change your life and help you over the problems of youth, for they are many.

Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

I'm pretty earthy; I nursed forever because I liked it and my kids liked it, but at the same time I'm very laissez-faire about stuff like bedtimes and food.

In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.

Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

You can't find what you don't go looking for.

Much of my writing is energized by unresolved memories - something like ghosts in the psychological sense.

I am the man of the century. No one will ever forget me.

You look older.” “Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.