Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them.

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.

For those special moments you never want to forget. When it comes to you, all I need is a pencilEthan

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

To spend our days betting on three-legged horses with beautiful names

Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats.

Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.

In places like South Afghanistan, where cultural norms prevent men from entering homes, female vaccinators often make the difference between a closed or opened door.

The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.

One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.

After September 11, I don't think people really believe things like this are all that important.

Fidel Castro is one of the most inspiring leaders of the 20th century.