Germany, South Korea - these are all countries that are investing massively in education. We've got to do the same thing in America.

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.

I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.

When my brother, Todd [Fisher], was born my father was already with Elizabeth [Taylor]. I was 19 or 20 when I first spent a block of time with him.

Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.

He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is courteous.

I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.

If you work on your talent, the plans will fall in automatically.

Jackson Rathbone—he is a prankster. Constantly scaring people from behind, stuff like that.

Feeling is the language of the soul. If you want to know what's true for you about something, look to how you're feeling about it.

It is therefore essential to let the 'heart spirit' settle like calm water. Then it becomes a tranquil lake in which the sky is reflected, in which the face of Christ can be seen.

Sachin Tendulkar has carried the burden of the nation for 21 years. It is time we carried him on our shoulders