Better may not be as good as the best, but better is surprisingly hard to obtain. And better is actually harder than worse.

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.

Between hope and despair treads a life without love!

But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. And the more narrowly you can look at a thing the more entertaining you can be about it.

I don't fear death, I fear I haven't done enough before it happens

Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious they are the dictator inside ourselves.

Business schools make a fortune forcing their students to take in a HUGE amount of information. The majority of it is theoretical. The majority of that is useless.

Wisdom and white hair might not be as valued [in our society] as in different cultures.

I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile?

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.

Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.