Building on our Young South-east Asian Leaders Initiative, I'm hopeful that we can continue expand the ties and cooperation between our young people and students.

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.

Problems are everywhere, so are Solutions. Unfortunately, we see more of the Problems than the Solutions.

Take each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet.

Be yourself! Fill yourself up with light and fly!

u should not be afraid of doing what ur mind tells you 2 do...just listen 2 ur heart...never say never

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

We unfortunately live in a corporate world where group decision making is made to avoid failure rather than to achieve success.

Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was the salt that had kept her from completely corruption.

Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.

Harry: "And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?” Ron: “Throw it away and punch him on the nose.

An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings of Nature and our responses.