The future is ours to win. But to get there we can't just stand still.

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.

Thinking of a series of dreamsWhere the time and the tempo flyAnd there's no exit in any direction'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes

You should get out of here. Have a good life.

You have to maintain the balance between fast growth and smooth growth. It's like driving a car and knowing when to balance the gas pedal and the brake.

Emotional pain is sometimes what we make of it. We can always choose how we react. No matter what the pain, breathing always centers me.

The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.

There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.

The eternal feminine doth draw us upward. [Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.]

There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.

Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.

I keep a night light on because my room is so full at night, I can't get to sleep!