The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.

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.

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 nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.

Our habitual failure to recognise thought as thought, our habitual identification with discursive thought, is the primary source of human suffering.

City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.

What was given to us by the past is adapted to the possibilities of the future.

In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything.

The only thing success should do is make you more humble.

Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.

I think any time you're at the end of a trip you're usually pretty ready to come home and start working regularly again.

People always want to compare their dogs to having kids. That's insulting. First of all, nobody has a dog because they were too drunk to pull out.

After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.

The Internet is truly God's gift to the Chinese people.