I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding.

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.

Material things may satisfy your temporal desires, but none can be taken with you when you're gone. Build your hopes on things eternal !

The man who has done nothing but wait for his ship to come in has already missed the boat.

Books keep the mind active. Without them, complacency is a huge danger.

There must be something between us, even if it's only an ocean.

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

I mean, I do consider that my music is pop because Ive been influenced by pop music my whole life; I grew up in the States and 80s pop music was my biggest influence.

we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.

An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.

Revolution is obstructed evolution.

We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people.