Religious concerns ok, if translated into universal values.

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.

It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone (automatically) makes you more (mentally) mature than them.

You got to face your evil, Hoodoo, " Zeke said. "If people don't face the danger that's seeking them, evil will find them first.

A moment comes, and if you wish to look at yourself as human, you must take some kind of action. Otherwise, you can read the newspapers and congratulate yourself on your good fortune.

In life we always have some measure of control whether it be over our emotions or choices, but when it comes to cancer? The only thing you can control is how you respond to it

Fear is one thing. To let fear grab you and swing you around by the tail is another.

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.

A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes.

There was an unbelievable amount of animosity in that war [for America Independence] which people have forgotten, which was still around 50 years later.