We will not hesitate to speak out when we see actions that contradict those values.

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.

Stop wasting your time looking for the key to happiness… the door is open and unlocked… just walk through it.

It may not be important how much you have, but it is important who you are in your heart.

It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.

Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.

Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

(American swimmer, 1972 Summer Olympics, on winning seven gold medals Inspirational) I swam my brains out.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Time is like the ocean, always there, always different.

Oh, did you expect me to play fair?" Cupid laughed. "I am the god of love. I am never fair.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.