What we have done, I think, is build a model from a lot of hard lessons in Afghanistan and Iraq but in other places around the world, where we are working with them in an advisory capacity.

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.

Old school mission statements defined what an organization did. Contemporary mission statements define why an organization does what it does.

The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

Through Compassion and Care we are compelled to random acts of kindness and demonstrations of love.

There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.

The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

Take care of yourself. Eat well, rest, train hard and smart, make time to think and breathe. Be intentional with your time.

He who cannot remember the past is condemned to remember the past. Or something.

Actually, the mysteries of water are similar to those of the blood in the human body. In Nature, normal functions are fulfilled by water just as blood provides many important functions for mankind.

No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.