We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.

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.

Truths are written, never said... Lines are drawn, but then they fade.

Everything's temporary...until it's not.

Love is sweet even when what you go through is bitter.

People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.

I feel like there are so many people I admire for so many reasons that I can't look at one person's life and say, "I want that life." I want to make my own history.

I discovered that magic tricks got me more attention from the girls in my class when I was nine - so a magician was born!

Love's secret is always to be doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.

The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.

Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.