Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

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.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

I've tried to teach what I learned all those years in my mother and father's house, all those things I didn't realize I was learning and that I never knew I'd be so grateful for. When you have love and it's proffered every day in a kind of tender, yet stern insistence and even reckless laughter, when it is given to you and you accept it in life as a thing as natural as rain or snow, or the littler of leaves in fall, you can't help but take it for granted. For a bewildered while you incorrectly understand that the world has given you this becuase it's there in equal measure, everywhere. You never knowuntil it's too late to do anything about it, how seet the effort is: how lasting the human will to love can be in the breast of people who want to make it for you, who want to give it to you, without calculating what's in it fo them, without thinking at all of what it will mean when you grow to full adulthood, see the world as it is, and forget to mention what you have been given.Ever day of my grown-up life, I have wanted to do what my parents did. I have wanted to widen the province of love and weaken hate and bitterness in the hearts of my children. And I've done these things because of what I got from my family, all those lovely years when I was growing up, being loved and cherished and, unbeknown to me, and in the best way, honored, for myself.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given.

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree.

Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet.

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

If you don't like the way the world is you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

We must not... ignore the small daily differences we can make which over time add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

Don't be afraid of hard work.