What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return

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.

In the past year I’ve learned that love can make you do crazy, silly, stupid, ridiculous things. And the fact that one person can make you feel this way and do those things is amazing to me.

Conscience is the detective that watches the direction of our steps and decries every conscious transgression.

Politicians are crooks!

I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.

Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.

All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.

The successful golfers - they're like astronauts or pilots. They have that demeanor that they can focus and stay within that one moment and nothing distracts them. That's not me.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.

In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another.