I have always believed that what brings us together is stronger than what pulls us apart.

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.

Are you serving in your local church or your are being served?

Fire tries gold misfortune men.

There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

Black is not a color.

Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway

The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.

The best way to get along with people is not to expect them to be like you.

Ideally, you don't speak until you have something honest to say.

We want to be in open, loving communion with each other and our greatest fear is intimacy. That it won't work and we'll be rejected.