On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.

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.

Tickle my heart with your pen. Write me for all to read. Bind our love inside a book. Make me your poetry.

The confidence we have in God and in ourselves, gives us the courage to dare great things.

If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us walk together...

Where would you be without etymology'? Lea asked sarcastically.'I think I might find words a little less interesting, ' said Mr Ruche.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

The dark side of blogging is, of course, people can be (and are) just savage and uncivilized, deeply cruel and fully unaccountable.

You have to admit he's good looking," Bree pressed, leaning against my kitchen counter. "Of course I admit it. I'm not blind," I said, busily opening cans.

Fountains are more romantic when you don't hate the person you're with.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.