31 quotes found
“Don't be afraid of hard work.”
“No person has the right to rain on your dreams.”
“You really can change the world if you care enough.”
“Education is a precondition to survival in America today.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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...”
“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,...”
“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.”
“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 agai...”
“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 a...”
“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 o...”
“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.”
“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.”
“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”
“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.”
“I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a...”
