If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.

If you worry about who is going to get credit, you don't get much work done.

Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit

I want to be remembered as one who tried.

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.