Good afternoon, everybody-ugh, Jesus, gimme a sec.

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.

God is the distance between light and darkness.

Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.

It takes a lot of pressure off you just to go out and play, and your talent sometimes shines even more when you don't worry about individual stuff.

Donald Trump and Senator Cruz have occasional Manichean tendencies.

If you don’t prepare, you could lose everything. If you prepare for the worst and nothing happens, you’ve lost nothing.

To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible.

This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.

On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females.

Don't think being 'religious' means becoming harsh or hard. When Allah enters a heart, He softens it--He doesn't harden it.