There are problems that just end up being really hard and by definition the only problems that come to my desk are the ones that nobody else can solve.

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.

Sometimes the sound of silence is the most deafening sound of all.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

Who wanted to live to a hundred and one? Who wanted to go on living at all at times?

A company can’t buy true emotional commitment from managers no matter how much it’s willing to spend

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic, and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from the earliest days of life right through to the present time.

Logic taken to an extreme would always equal chaos.

She was only a year old, but elves grew up fast. Not like witches, who Jenks swore were not able to be on their own until they were thirty. Ahem.

I do like adrenaline. Zip-lining is my favorite.