No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work.

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.

If it was my lot that I should have him for only a little while, then have him I would.

If you wait to figure out everything before starting anything, it'll never happen.

Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.

I would just listen to the complaints about what I do instead of celebrating what I do, and that I'm different and in my own lane. It took a while for me to just ignore the doubts.

The world does not pay men for that which they “know”. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

Anyone who tries to make a living as a painter knows you can't lounge about waiting for inspiration to hit; nothing motivates like keeping a roof over your head.

I can't regret until the end. And I won't regret then, either.

Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.

A stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet.

Before you speak, listen.