You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

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

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

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.

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

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.