Military surge in Afghanistan to eliminate the Taliban.

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.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

Life is full of change, honey. That's how we learn and grow. When we're born, the Good Lord gives each of us a Life Book. Chapter by chapter, we live and learn.'"-

When my journal appears many statues must come down.

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

I have called the co-host job at the 'Today Show' my dream job, and I would be lying if I said it was easy to leave that job.

Capel said, "Remember that you're a woman." All too often I forgot that.

Salt water is cleansing, be it sweat, the ocean, or tears.

In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.

I’ve never been comfortable around groups of guys when it gets into the putting-down. My past being a kind of geek - it kind of turns into an attack on the weakest of the group.

Don't hang onto anything too tightly-all things must change and you have to allow room for them to grow and blossom.