We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

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.

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give

It is only when we go outside that comfort zone, and subject ourselves to the discomfort of considering thoughts we don’t agree with, that we can make an informed judgment on any matter.

I've never had an interest, but baseball looks abnormal.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.

A true master has developed, in their inner practices and studies, certain powers. These powers are sometimes of the miraculous nature, the transmission of attention.

Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.

I've got to watch my back, so I can't put on too much weight.

I think there's always something about design that is going to be very difficult for more than a small fraction of people to really get.

If I'd been whoring before class and waved a corset at him, no one would have thought twice about it!