You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

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 Creator favors the man who loves over the man who hates. If you teach hatred to your children, one day your child will have that hatred reflected back onto them, or onto you.

The fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality

My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are.

It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.

Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.

I have a long history of being told I have no rhythm, and of people saying 'I've heard chickens sing better than that'.

Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.

I dream too much, work too little.

Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.