There's nothing that America can't handle if we actually look squarely at the problem. ...Change depends on our actions.

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.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Every major life decision I made came from my pain, guilt and shame...even down to the man I chose for a husband.

You're not as invisible as you think.

Each painting evolves freely and independently.

I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.

A Martian would think that the English worship at supermarkets, not in churches.

Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.

No one has yet invented a system of education that is capable of ruining everyone.

When you are satisfied, you are successful. For that's all there is to success is satisfaction.