What I could not support was a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.

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.

Dwelling much on the contemplation of little things, [we] are in danger of losing the intellectual appetite.

The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.

As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

People give up control because they don't want to make mistakes.

I have a theory that the Internet makes people stupider. And Also FOX News makes people stupider.

Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night.

If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.

No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.

To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.

The great enemy of any totalitarian regime is normalization and trade.