We can't just drill our way out of the energy and climate challenge that we face.

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.

Some friends gladly stay, some move away. Some come and go, but their affections grow. While some, I recall, are not friends at all.

we are not here on earth to change our destiny but to fulfill it.

[T[his isn’t just “another day, another dollar.” It’s more like “another day, another miracle.” (213)

You will never become a hero if you keep waiting for someone else to bring a cape for you.

When someone falls asleep on your chest, but the one really falling is you.

I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.

Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one-all red.

Salander was the woman who hated men who hate women.

Mental toughness is a state of mind - you could call it 'character in action.'

Heaven speed the canvas, gallantly unfurl'd, To furnish and accommodate a world, To give the Pole the produce of the sun, And knit the unsocial climates into one.