Don't shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.

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.

Will my future faith be dominated by past demons? Will my unlimited possibilities give way to my limited territory?

[T]he source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being namely, that his errors are corrigible.

How dare she not give in to his "vulnerability." There was only so much rejection he could take.

An easy way to find your own style is to exaggerate yourself a bit and then find a balance.

We can't own each other's past. The questioin is whether we have a future together.

Is that what I wanted? To be in the middle of something complicated and dramatic? To be a cheerleader for someone else’s romance? Or to have a romance of my own?

Dating is a social brain teaser, as it requires constantly changing ratios of intimacy and distance, an erotic mental cha-cha choreographed by chemistry, insight, and fear.

We need statutory spending limits written into law.

But once in a while you might see me at In and Out Burger; they make the best fast food hamburgers around.

The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does.