There are few things in life that are harder to find and more important to keep than love. Well, love and a birth certificate.

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.

Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about their unrealisticness).

Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

Oh, Ma, you're looking at all the trees, and I'm not even in the forest.

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.

Our strategy was to give Judge Hoffman a heart attack. We gave the court system a heart attack, which is even better.

You read about somebody, and doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.

The best soulwinners are those who go when it is convenient and then go when it is not convenient.

Love isn't what I have the opportunity to get from this world. Love is what I have the opportunity to give.

Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting.