Don't let your failures define you.

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.

We look at the world once, in childhood.The rest is memory

You don't get harmony when everyone sings the same note.

I felt less like Cinderella and more like used drywall. Perpetually screwed.

If you see yourself as prosperous you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up that is exactly what you will be.

Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.

As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are not really who you think you are. There are many selves inside you, not just one.

People in my situation get to read about themselves whether they want to or not. It's generally wrong. Or oversimplified - which is sometimes useful.

We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.

Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.

We get used to things, and we like reading the way we're used to reading.