At a certain point you can't help but lose some feel for what's on the ground because you're not on the ground.

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.

When you decide to become consistent, you are telling yourself that 'I will never make another excuse again.' You have to commit to it, and most importantly believe in yourself.

In order to achieve stable success, you must be focused on God and not on success itself

Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.

His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.

I love music and I guess I have less expectations or pressure to kind of put on myself because the music hasn't been some huge sensation.

Man must spend much more time in extraordinary natural places to grasp much better how remarkable our planet is and to realise what a great privilege and what an enormous joy to be living here!

Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us. I don't know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what that brings upon me.

If you have a friend with a blond mustache, he wants to touch you.

No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

It takes strong men and women to love ... people strong enough inside themselves to love ... without humiliation.