The friendship that we established early on in our marriage ... that carries you through tough times. That and a good sense of humor.

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.

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.

Why must holy places be dark places?

Innovation is rewarded. Execution is worshipped.

It is the Buddhist belief that at every moment the universe is not only dying but being reborn.

Golf is a puzzle without an answer.

Manipulating [is] just the way to proceed, to convince that what you're doing is important. Is nothing more than that. Everyone is manipulating.

I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!