Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

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.

Science is the process of obscuring the marvelous with explanations.

A week is a long time in the life of a child.

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.

What I have come to believe is that joy is the twin sister of gratitude. I am most joyful when I am most grateful.

Once you sleep on feathers you can't go back to sleeping on the floor.

People think they will wake up one day and I'll be gone. But I'm never going away.

The value of our good is not measured by what it does, but by the amount of good it does to the one concerned.

That's one of the things about being married to a couple of musicians, I have got great iPods. That's what I was left with -- an iPod each.

The reality of my life cannot die for I am indestructible consciousness.

Michael (Jackson) was so shy, he'd sit down and sing behind the couch with his back to me while I sat with my hands over my eyes-and the lights off.