With respect to Syria, we are going to continue to work as we have over the last five, six years to push towards a political transition and settlement.

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.

By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?

I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.

it is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning.

I'm in a body, and when my sleep ends, I'm awake. I don't really understand the... that's not really a choice. I mean unless I chose to stay in bed, but I'd still be awake.

We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others - both human and animal.

we never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them.

Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.

Marx, if he had come back alive would have said Mao's his boy.

A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.

[YSL creative director] Hedi [Slimane] is a music-obsessed guy. I might've originally met him through Sky.