We know we can't stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence.

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 is no way of stopping death, not here. You can prolong it. But at some point, it is bound to catch up to you.

Love does not need true copies signed by a registrar of marriages.

Choose your friends carefully but don’t worry about your enemies, they will choose you

The whole world's a bottle, And life's but a dram, When the bottle gets empty, It sure ain't worth a damn.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

All of my marriages lasted seven years.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.

The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.

The end of art is peace.