We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage.

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.

Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little People, it is with disdain and contempt.

The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.

We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

The law doesn't create a right.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

Long pains are light ones, Cruel ones are brief!

Either is both, and Both is neither.

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

Roll on, thou ball, roll on! Through pathless realms of Space, Roll on!