You just do it one step at a time.

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.

The eyes of others my our prisons

I am a negative person by nature, and I typically shy away from anything that requires me to be having visible fun.

Tears are pouring down my cheeks like tiny rivers, soaking my shirt with dark patches of my salty happiness.

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

When you're very young, images that you upload into your very young mind tend to stay with you.

You never have to get up at 6 am, if you don't want to get up at 6 am.

My teachings are my life.

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self

If America wants to make "made in America" a symbol of excellence and worth. They have to make everything of high quality, otherwise the best.