It is time to put in place tough, new common-sense rules of the road so that our financial market rewards drive and innovation, and punishes short-cuts and abuse.

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.

It is not about what you lose when it is over. Far more, it is about what you gain during the journey!

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded.

Take a moment to think... See - logically.

There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt.

I think for five lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, two million, 10 million non-human lives.

Man's obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.

God thinks in the geniusses, he dreams in the poets and slumbers in the rest of humanity.

I like things you can touch and things you can keep, because every bit of communication we have is ephemeral in nature. You can just delete an e-mail and it's like it was never there.

We ain't meant to survive, cause it's a setup, And even though you're fed up, Huh, ya got to keep your head up.