It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.

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.

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

I get on Twitter, one of my routines during the day, if I'm home is, I wake up, get a cup of coffee, turn on the Weather Channel and I'll look at what people are saying to me on Twitter on my phone.

Only the wounded physician heals.

Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

Even the ears must dance.

Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.

Enough words, little wisdom. [Lat., Satis eloquentiae sapientiae parum.]

I do not mean that others represent Jesus for us. I mean that Jesus actually is present in each other person

Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.