Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

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.

All actual life is encounter.

Love is a song, written in your heart.The moon is a poem in a starry night.

Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given.

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.

People go to the movies to see things they haven’t seen before. Call me a radical.

I dont want to be owned by anyone.

I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.

You know how it feels when you're in love with somebody and you long to be with that person? God wants us to feel that way about Him.

A president should take action to defend the United States against eminent threat. You have to. The president has to do that.