The world is made up of facts, not things.
The basis for peace is respecting all creatures.
To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984
True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community. . . Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.
And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.
If I can get a hike in on a regular basis I know I will feel better and I will be stronger. I set goals for myself - like learning to sew, learning to dance - things that are not work related. I find that play and craft with my family bring me a lot of joy, along with all things vintage.
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
Today, on this day of possibility, we stand in the shadow of a lanky, raw-boned man with little formal education who once took the stage at Old Main and told the nation that if anyone did not believe the American principles of freedom and equality, that those principles were timeless and all-inclusive, they should go rip that page out of the Declaration of Independence.