Cutting benefits is not the right answer. Raising the retirement age is not the best option.

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 who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

No man was ever wise by chance.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

I love being in the ocean. I love the unpredictability of it- size of wave, animals you see, etc.

Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!

I think there's nothing sadder than a pro athlete who plays past his prime.

Change. But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed

We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

Although whenever you have intelligent life in the presence of large explosions, a safe bet is that the intelligent life is responsible for the large explosion.