You have to be involved in terms of what's happening in your local neighborhood and what issues are there.

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.

Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourslef or to gossip about others. Use your power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

It's not Life that begans at forty, it's Death- Victoria

Inspiring others is the pathway to your own discoveries

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day

As I look back on my life, I see it as one long obstacle course with myself as the main obstacle.

History is the "know thyself" of humanity - the self-consciousness of mankind.

The day you stop worrying will be the first day of your new life; anxiety takes you in circles, trust in yourself and become free.

hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.

I've done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.