I have a deep appreciation for the wisdom of this guy , George Washington.

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.

Growing up I didn't watch movies.

The systems they (the Arts) nourish, which include our integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities, are, in fact, the driving forces behind all other learning.

All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.

Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax of his adventurous life, and to the end for which he had been made.

I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.

Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.

What I put in the stock market, I dont have to touch in my lifetime. I want to live off my bonds. I want to be that safe.

I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.

Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.