One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman.

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.

No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.

To be able to put oneself in another’s position, to be able to see and to feel as another person does, this is the rare gift of an earnest spiritual seeker.

The universe create you to see its own beauty through your eyes.

Like two side to a coin, there are two sides to life: your reason and emotional facets.

Life is nothing but a bunch of experiences. There's no such thing as success or failure.

'Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.

How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.