So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.

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.

Sometimes the things that destroy you, become the architectural blueprints which make your mind royal.

In a world full of pebbles dare to be a diamond.

Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.

It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me?

The person who is not strong enough gives up at the halfway point - but you are limiting yourself before even starting.

Don't trade future blessings for temporary pleasures.

A point in every direction is the same as having no point at all.

I obviously have a different connection to each song in a different way, and they all mean something different to me.

I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album

All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.