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

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

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 human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.

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

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

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

In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.

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.

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.

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.

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.