Each American must remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

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.

Taking care of your thoughts is at least as important as taking care of your body - if not even more important.

I thought Britney Spears was absolutely marvelous in the beginning. But now I think she's gone off the deep end.

The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.

The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.

But I don't want to die! I have so much to do!

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.

You don't have to be some sort of freak to meditate

One day he (Einstein) said that the only mechanical force more powerful than steam, electricity and atomic energy is will. That Albert guy was not stupid. With will you can achieve things.

I don't think we're wasting people in space.

Our detachments move us toward freedom and death.