I think it's fair to say that my temperament is steady - and on the buoyant side.

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.

Stars are dull when they're compared to you and I

There is a better future, with a greater purpose. One can find it, only if he or she searches for it.

Does he know I can never feel anything for anyone ever again?

How you react when your back is against the wall will determine if you see what's actually over the wall.

A watched pot never boils, but if I took my eyes from these negative thoughts for a second they would spill over the edges of my lips, and boil the beautiful moment alive as we lived it.

Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.

I have to admit, in January and February I was in an absolute fuzz. I had no one on board. It wasn't that I didn't know what I was doing, but we didn't have all the pieces put together.

Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black people in the south!

Our Heavenly Father wants our hearts to be knit together. That union in love is not simply an ideal. It is a necessity

The past was so past it hurt.