What matters is how well we have loved, and what small part we have played in making the lives around us better.

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.

Most diseases are caused not so much by what we eat, but more by what is eating us.

I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.

I can take criticisms but not compliments.

Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it doesn't exist at all.

When you leave, weary of me, without a word, I shall gently let you go.

Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.

To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me.

Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world.