Some people wonder all their lives if they’ve made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem.

I did not learn the flaws of the criminal-justice system in law school or college or by reading about it. I grew up knowing the flaws and how it was disproportionately impacting the black community. It’s not academic for me.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

You aren’t your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family… your anything. You’re a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one’s conversion, worthiness, and preparation.

Missionaries serve to make life better for God’s children.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

As an entrepreneur, I have been known for taking risks throughout my career, but leaving the European Union is not one of the risks I would want the U.K. to take – not as an investor, not as a father, and not as a grandfather. I am deeply concerned about the impact of leaving.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

The sergeant is the Army.

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

Service of any type requires preparation.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

It’s the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change – as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

If it’s all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it’s all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that’s it. You’re not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You’re not going to read that book again.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.