For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life.

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.

African Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.

I felt that I committed myself too much. I promised too much. But that way it's exciting.

We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.

The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

I was invincible, at least that's what I wanted you to think, and I wanted me to think it, too.

Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion.

She knew she shouldn't want him with every fiber of her being, but she couldn't help herself. Gazing at him feeling his touch - the rest of the world faded into the background

Evolution is a snail, but Revolution is a kangaroo; one crawls, other jumps!

The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.

If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.