The violence engulfing the region today has made too many Israelis ready to abandon the hard work of peace. But let’s be clear: the status quo in the West Bank and Gaza is not sustainable.

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 fundamental tragedy about life is that those who possess it often are not aware of its value

The mentality of seeking miracles from one place to another is destructive to the economy

There is nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

Nothing will kill what you've been called to do more than comparing yourself to someone else.

You got to control your own destiny. You got to keep writin different stuff. Keep switchin up and never do the same thin too many times.

Wars should be over in three days or less...and the American people must be all for it from the outset.

Politics is a thing that I follow because it determines what is going on in my country, but I vote and deal with politicians with a great degree of jaundiced eye.

You have to think it before you can do it. The mind is what makes it all possible

Television, I would say, isn't an advertising medium. It's a selling medium.

The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.