And above all, children need our unconditional love - whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough.

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.

Don't work for money, work to learn

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.

I first told the idea to an editor I had met who, after reading one of my novels for adults that was set in a high school, had an idea that I might write something for children.

Perhaps being hated in the right way is preferable to being loved in the wrong one.

I made mistakes, I made some bread. I even made a way for them to get ahead.

When you feed the big dog, it does whatever you tell him to do.

The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.

Keep trying. Stay humble, Trust your instincts. Most importantly, act. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.