All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American.

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.

Be in limits, life will never limit you.

Do not criticize others unless you are willing to accept criticism.

To be known by the public, honestly. People come up and tell them how good I make them feel.

You idiot!" She spat, flattening her ears. "What are you doing in my territory?" "Drowning?" Replied Graystripe.

It's not up to anyone else to make me give my best.

Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.

The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.

We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.

... only those of us who carry our cause in our hearts are willing to run the risks.

I am black, so with my writing and my voice, you get that kind of dialect.