What is true is [Bashar] Assad got rid of his chemical weapons.

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.

To fully encapsulate my creativity, I read to inhale, write to exhale. The whole process helps me breathe story.

Maybe I should find another doctor

Alex resisted the urge to throw Seb off the balcony and see if he could fly.

I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society.

I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.

O latest born and loveliest vision far of all Olympus' faded hierarchy.

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.

One has to strive for a very open liberal society.