Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest but who has the right information.

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.

A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.

I was one of the serious studiers. I'm not somebody who just shows up and gets a hundred on a test.

It's so hard to find the time. I only have one kid and it's hard with one kid. I can't imagine people who have more than that.

I don't really do very well when I'm sent somewhere. A lot of magazines want to send you somewhere to do something. They want you to stow away on a ship, or something like that.

There's nothing to catch up on. You came, you saw, you scored, you left. End of story.

A man's word and his intestinal fortitude are two of the most honorable virtues known to mankind.

[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.

The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.

Fred Hoyle and I differ on lots of questions, but on this we agree: a common sense and satisfying interpretation of our world suggests the designing hand of a superintelligence.

One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.