That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

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.

Harboring anger, hatred and resentment within you, is containing the venom within you. You are the only one affected...

It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.

They would be a duet. They would be happy. What is happy, anyways?

He hadn't killed nearly as many people as I had. But then again, he hadn't had my advantage, which was the full cooperation of our Government.

To come home and share life experiences with friends is the key to what makes me feel really alive.

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.

Young people want you to be real with them.

Withdraw to the untroubled quietude deep within the soul, and refresh yourself.

Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature.