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

"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."

"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."

"Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development."

"It is a enduring truth that a dream nurtured by daily toil will inevitably outshine a wish born of idle hope."

"Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it."

"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems and remember, no one can get the jump on the future."

"I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends."