The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

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.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.

I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own.

When people reproach us, they only increase their own failings even as they are disclaiming them.

One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.

And if you dont come back from the dorm, I'm the one who has to explain to Micheal how I let you go off and get yourself killed like a Dumbass. First rule in horror movies, Clair-Never split up!

In the depths all becomes law.

If you just take one foot in front of the other without any protection, you may end up falling off the fence.

I'm currently trying to direct my own material.

I never doubted, not ever, that I would succeed.