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.
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.
We must not… ignore the small daily differences we can make which over time add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can’t do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.
Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.
The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.
Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people’s children.
We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it’s not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.
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.
Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.
A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.