We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

A poet is somebody who has written a poem.

Perhaps it was a passing moment of madness after all. There is no trace of it any more. My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them.

I am a former sabre fencer and fenced as part of the Uzbek republic team.

Kids can be a pain in the neck when they're not a lump in your throat.

Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.

It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.

The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were.

All women are created equal, then some become Мarines.

It is not enough, citizens, to have destroyed the factions, it is necessary now to repair the evil that they have done to the country.

To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I've gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom.