Marian Wright Edelman

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

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

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

There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.

Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.