The Iranians may simply try to run out the clock.

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.

Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferociousdefence? One might have supposed him amply capable of lookingafter himself.

The acts of observing and judging are necessarily solitary acts.

Sometimes, I have to look twice at you just to see if you’re actually real. That much beauty is dangerous.

One of man's greatest obligations is anger.

The Holy Koran tells us, 'O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.'

You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.

They who humble themselves before knowledge of any kind generally end up the wiser and as voices with something meaningful to say.

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

I think that ties in with issues of identity as well - that sometimes there are parts of us we want to hide, and then there's other times we say, "You know what? Nope. Done hiding that part."

It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something.