What is the empathy deficit? The inability of people to stand in other folks shoes. It's hard to empathize with people who have different values than you

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.

I was going to be a memory when I grew up.

Never despair but if you do work on in despair.

Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away; . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.

God is so boundlessly pleased with Jesus that in him he is altogether well pleased with us.

President Obama went to India, South Korea, then Japan. He's going to keep travelling until he finds his birth certificate.

Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is the man (n. 368) (Divine Love and Wisdom, 1763)

People can snap. People have a limit. And some people are just plain nuts.

We won't fully experience joy until we've answered life's biggest question: Why am I here?

The radio of my youth ... is now a quaint memory replaced by computer hard drives.

A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.