As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.

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.

He says that we must protect our families no matter what. No matter what we got to do to protect them.

Jöns: But feel, to the very end, the triumph of being alive!

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too obvious.

Pity is always twinged with disgust.

Hate is a cancer that spreads one cell at a time.

perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

I think that music at inappropriate times with inappropriate volumes can be the funniest thing ever.

I don't know if it's true that most people don't know this, but the reason that I play music is because of my favourite band of all time - AC/DC.

The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.

You cried for night - it falls. Now cry in darkness.