Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that kills 4,600 children a year.

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.

I bring you with reverent handsThe books of my numberless dreams.

When I am old and addled I will make coronets like Cad, that have nothing to do with history, but represent the whimsy and cobwebs in my brain.

Know everything. Say nothing.

When we have a world of only now with no shadows of yesterdays or clouds of tomorrow then saying what we can do will work.

In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.

I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.

I mulled over what he had told me as I savored the Scotch. Not bad, really - like a beer that's been in a brawl.

Without form, the sensitiveness vanishes.

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

I've been asked to direct pilots for a lot of shows.