I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.

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.

No matter how much you stress or obsess about the past or future, you can't change either one. In the present is where your power lies.

Loneliness is a state when you have not yet grown to love yourself enough.

The smell of frustration cannot compete with the stench of non-creation

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

Faith doesn't always instantly deliver you, but it always carries you through.

My features are completely ethnic.

The soul in man is greater than his fate.

I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they turn what had been a dream into a public nuisance.

There are no statues erected to critics.