There are always things that I think I wish I could have done better.

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.

If there is a one-in-a-million chance that you will "make it, " then SOMEBODY has to be that ONE. It may as well be YOU! So FIGHT, WARRIOR!

Really rather fascinating, you know,' he confided, and I recognized, with an internal sigh, the song of the scholar, as identifying a sound as the terr-whit! of a thrush.

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.

If joy or urgency are missing from our presentation of the gospel, then our testimony to Christ will be missing that sort of fullness that we find in the New Testament.

Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

Seek out a person whom you admire and respect for the support you need - that we all need from time to time.

More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation. There is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one center.