The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.

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.

Success is not a romantic word, it's an ugly world.

She smiled at him as they waited for their dessert, her chin poised on her clasped hands.'You're being very silent.''That's how men cry.

My mom used to say that sometimes just saying something aloud was enought to make it true. I wasn't so sure about that.

A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.

Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.

We've been socialized with these concepts of love, intimacy, that have no bearing on reality.

A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he was an ordinary-looking man of fifty or so.

My agent is so totally honest, which is just what every writer needs. She won't let me sell a crappy book, even if I want to.