To anyone out there who has ever been assaulted: You will never be alone. You are never alone. We have your back. I've got your back.

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.

Freedom is something that should not be washed away in time leaving the essence alone in time.

Nothing is too big for [God] to handle and nothing is so small that it's unworthy of His attention. There is no such thing as a silly prayer.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.

While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.

Heights don't bother me...It's falling and cracking my skull that freaks me out.

I can't think of anybody worse to live with.

Some kids do drugs. Some kids light stuff on fire. Me, I eat oats.

People say 'nerd' condescendingly, but when you're older you start to realize that it's the nerds who grow up to be the cool ones.

Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being.