You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.

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.

I fear none, except for the enemies live within me

One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.

I have no way of knowing what you are going to feel when you look at one of my paintings; I only know what I feel.

It's so legato it's difficult to splice. Sibelius was famous for that.

I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?

Bashar Assad clearly doesn't want to hear anything that impugns his government.

New York in the 60s was amazing.

I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute.

I am very gender-fluid and feel more like I wake up every day sort of gender neutral.

I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits.