We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.

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.

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

There’s hardly anybody who doesn’t hate somebody now, and nobody at all whom somebody doesn’t hate.

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.

The American people are not as casualty-sensitive as the weenies in the American press are.

There is no need to make spirituality a part of education. If you make education non-imposing and non-suppressive, people are naturally spiritual.

The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.

I like to live righteous. And I just want everyone to know I'm not trying to get out of anything.

Some people only know how to copy others and some people are just subconsciously over influenced by what they hear rather than having a sound of their own.

Women attempt suicide more often because they want to become the priority of those they love rather than always prioritizing them.