If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.

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.

That was what maturity was: accepting things. The more things you accepted, the more mature you were.

Those blue eyes that had stopped my heart the first time she looked at me found me in the crowd." -Cage

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.

We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.

For me, words are just words, nothing else

Thank God that I get to do what I get to do; there's no way to tell you how grateful I am.

I went to the store and bought lady fingers, when I got home I noticed one of the fingers was missing so I went back to the store and the manager was nice enough to give me the finger.

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten . . .

Death was past, life not come: so he waited.

We believe as much as we can. We would believe everything if we could.