Two-thirds of Americans believe that, after a baby's heart is beating and they can feel pain, that they need some protection.

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.

Myrnin said softly. "And how is it that you do not understand that HERE, in THIS place, this girl belongs to me, not to you?

My mom has always just been one of those people who handle adversity and challenges, and really everything, with so much grace and elegance. I saw it all the time.

I've been loved in life, but all that matters now is that I'm loved by you." -Eva

The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what I liked in it.

Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.

What we do and accomplish is only the tip of the iceberg of what's possible for us.

Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.

Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.