There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.

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.

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

She stood lost in eternity wearing a crazy dress, watching the immense sky.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one.

The truest friends are usually the ones telling you what you don't want to hear.

You are pure potential.

I can be out auditioning but a lot of times it's word of mouth more than anything - having worked on other projects with people who might see you and recommend for other projects and vice versa.

Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.

You know you're old when your family talk about you in front of you. What are we going to do with Pop? We have company tonight.