My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.

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.

Your little choices become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.

There was something comforting about believing in things that didn’t exist.

Then the glow grew brighter: a holographic golden sickle with a few sheaves of wheat, rotating just above Meg McCaffrey.A boy in the crowd gasped. "She's a communist!

Custom reconciles us to everything.

I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you.

EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.

That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do.

Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.

What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how to put some poetry into your craven retreat from it.