Iran's nuclear program . . . there was going to be a time limit . . .

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.

Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.

Real compassion only exists in silence

If you are not working towards something, your life will end with nothing.

This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.

For me, it's important that I experience and feel what the characters are feeling. So I put myself in those moments, in their thoughts, and let it happen naturally. I write what I feel.

I've been putting out the fire with gasoline.

Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?

I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible.

My sufferings I can compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell!