A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

. . . We love fog becauseit shifts old anomalies into the elementssurrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing

I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.

With no specific procedure, man arrived at sweeping conclusions about the universe that have proven to be true.

After putting out quite a few albums, there's a feeling of why make another? I was trying to make something that was an album experience.

When you've tasted excess, everything else tastes bland.

Our very genesis was not really a beginning after all, but indeed the product of a personality-Father Mills.

Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?