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.

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.

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.

The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.

Courage is a warrior, wisdom is a sage, virtue is a priest, and love is poet.

My parents lie somewhere beneath the snow, buried with my mortal life.

He'd shot and beaten people because he couldn't talk to them.Violence was the only language nobody could understand. There were no translators.

A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.

Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.

All I am certain of right now is that I don't want to go anywhere, and that's not bad for someone who always used to run.

In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.

Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve.

Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.