What I want all of you to know is that we are going to bring those who killed our fellow Americans to justice.

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.

Chase your dream with all your strength.

Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself.

Accept advice from others and be sure they are positive before you set of to execute them.

I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I.

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

Very rarely does anyone say that the TV is better than the book.

A thick stick in one's hand makes people respectful.

The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

The foundation is an instrument forged by citizens who transfer profit from the commercial sector and put it directly to work as risk capital for the general betterment of the society.

If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.