Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.

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.

Kings can only use their best tools.

But if there must be an end, let it be loud. Let it be bloody. Better to burn than to wither away in the dark.

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.

The one sole thing in myself in which I glory is that I see in myself nothing in which I can glory.

Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?

I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.

If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.

It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers.

Don't give up your power to change things. Negativity and unhappiness are caused by you. You can change your attitude.

Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction