Here in Europe, I think that there are a lot of young people who forget the issues that were at stake during the Cold War.

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.

The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track.

We can't help everyone but everyone can help someone.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

One hard day of work proves you have heart. But day after day is what proves you have maturity and commitment.

The poem is a cry of the unborn heart. Yes, because the poem perfectly embodies the world, there is no world without poem.

There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!

I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.

Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

I had a gentleman in college tell me, during a date, that I could be really pretty if I lost some weight. On a date!

Sometimes the world is so beautiful it hurts.