If you're a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.

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.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.

Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

Communication with the dead is only a little more difficult than communication with some of the living.

Hallelujah and Hare Krishna are quite the same thing.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.

The only way you can estimate environmental influences is by measuring them.

My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral