I do love the Waldorf-Astoria, though. You know, I hear that from the doorstep you can see all the way to the Russian tea room.

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.

We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.

I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.

You can only see God when you notice people

When you see a small change in your life it means its a huge change in personality and your trait

Poetry is painting with words where you create a masterpiece by spilling your feelings and emotions onto the blank paper.

Many are destined to reason wrongly others not to reason at all: and others to persecute those who do reason.

Life's metaphors are God's instructions.

Obviously, for the majority of parents and certainly me you gain a million worlds when you have a child. Certainly, it's the thing that's changed my life and made me unbelievably happy.

Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.

People are brutal. Just to each other.