I decided to become a community organizer ... Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots.

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 backside of mountain is a fight against human nature, " he said. "You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

I'm a little lavish I must admit. But I'm not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is.

The way you make an omelet reveals your character.

Africa is trying to find its way back to a sense of itself, when much of that was lost through colonization.

Whether it is a big ship or small ship, the same size hole placed correctly in the hull can sink it.

The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.

Kim Coates is really funny. He's a blast. If you have to get beaten up and tortured, he's a good guy to get tortured by.

I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was.

To me, heaven is a real place. I don't believe it's a state of being.

To speak less is wisdom, to eat less is healthy, and to mingle less with te people is safe and serene.