It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

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

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

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

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, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.