"Education is a precondition to survival in America today."

"Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time."

"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."

"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."

"It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling."

"A dream nurtured by daily toil will inevitably outshine a wish born of idle hope. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds."

"To love truly means recognizing that hope is the anchor of a weary soul."

"A visionary sees the unseen and knows hope is the anchor of a weary soul."