I think where I get frustrated at times was the belief that the president can do anything if he just decides he wants to do it.

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.

A heart can only be broken or remain shattered through repeated negative interpretations of a negative experience.

Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.

Life without risks is not worth living.

A refrigerator runs by converting the dust behind it into a peculiar mutant, reptilian substance.

In truth, it is I who have defiled myself, for one is one s own fiercest enemy.

The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.

Writing a story, you understand, is not done by consensus. But we do learn from each other, and we remind ourselves how important this work we're doing is.

I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture.

I didnt want my opponent to know there was anything wrong with me.