Don't just consume things, create things

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.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.

In the face of all that has happened, it feels good, really good, to just breathe for a moment.

Sports uplift us. It's celebratory, gives us optimism and joy.

Bambi, to a kid, was scary.

I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.

I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.

Feed your head. Feed your head. Feed your head

Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of the representative government, cannot exist.

Whatever your craft is, be a master of it. Being half assed at something, people will eventually see through.

What painting is, is exactly what people see.