There are people in Iran who have the same aspirations as people all around the world for a better life.

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.

I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.

love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.

On the road, the WWE is a family. The divas are my sisters, and like any big brother, I don't want creeps around my little sisters.

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.

We should nourish our souls on the dew of Poesy, and manure them as well.

People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.

Better lose me than lose a state.

I resist thinking of myself as a teacher. I think of myself as a writer who has pulled a fast one and hoodwinked this institution into giving me a job and health insurance.

You can search the world over, but you won’t find happiness until you realize that happiness isn’t getting what you want. It’s being content with what you already have.