I think that the issues we have with science these days are not restricted to what's happening with respect to religion. There are a lot of very religious scientists around.

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.

So, this is my life. And I’m the architect of my happiness and sadness.

I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

My friend Taylor Swift’s new album, 1989.

People get nervous driving around corners, thinking they're going to tip over. But you can go soooo much faster through the curves than you realize.

Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty.

If your plan isn't working, adjust your plan. Never give up.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

Things will work out - maybe just not the way you plan

I don't remember how we happened to meet each other. I don't remember who got along with whom first. All I can remember is all of us together.always.