Young people recognize the big challenges that are coming up.

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.

People write books because of injustices.

I've always wanted to wake up one day in a world where I liked the right people, and they lied me in return. I worry it'll never happen.

The attempt to interpret human behavior in terms of models derived from the natural sciences eventually destroys personal responsibility.

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

If you can't be smart or funny, be brief.

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)

Your style is formed by what you can't do.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

It’s human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers.

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.