If we want America to stay on the cutting edge, we need young Americans to master the tools and technology that will change the way we do just about everything.

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.

Failure is almost always success wrapped in a blanket of redo possibilities... It is up to you to reframe the outcome ~bns

We’re not dreamers. We’re awaking from a dream turning into a nightmare. We’re not destroying anything. We’re watching the system destroy itself.

Tolerance is not a synonym of Weakness

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained no man can be truly free. He may have power but he will not have freedom.

Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.

Only that which is well done is quickly done.

Behavior is determined by its consequences.

A lot of parents ask me how to get kids to eat more vegetables. The first thing I say is that it starts from the top.

I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.