Maybe at the same time as I'm more confident today, I'm also more humble.

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.

Emmy has embarked on her journey to enrich the world with smiles. They are free, healthy, and often, very contagious.

When you are dealing with an invisible enemy, use most resources as shield, and a bit as a bait.

He had probably been thrown out of a wine shop, and it hadn't quite dawned on him yet.

... On the whole, the best fortress you can have, is in not being hated by your subjects. If they hate you no fortress will save you...

The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history.

I don't suffer from a mental illness, I live with it.

There's always some place to go. You don't need workshops, you don't need friends necessarily, you can be befriended by literature itself.

One of these days I will be an old man in a rocking chair on a porch. Wouldn't it be nice to have my whole life there to read and kind of re-live it.

...That it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?" ~pg 423

Few people realize the number of things that are possible.