Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.

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.

You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.

Mother Goose!I have never much cared for flippant remarks, especially when others make them, and in particular, I don't give a frog's fundament for them when they come from an adult.

Calories don’t count if they’re connected to a celebration. Everyone knows this.

Dragons think we are amusing. But they remember Erreth-Akbe. They speak of him as if he were a dragon, not a man.

I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.

Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.

What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand.

I so desperately want my words to be indicative of how deeply and completely I love my people.

By cool Siloam's shady rill How sweet the lily grows!

The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to.