I want every math teacher to know math. I want every science teacher to have expertise in science. I want them to know how to inspire and engage young people.

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.

I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.

The people of Israel, like those of the United States, are imbued with a religious faith and a sense of moral values

But we were talking about me and my problems." Sophronia looked Monique up and down gravely. "I don't think we're going to solve those in the space of one carriage ride.

I cherish all of the times I've fallen on my face and made mistakes, because those experiences have made me who I am.

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies.

You've got to destroy a few lives on the way to where you want to get.

The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.

I am an advocate of one form of the New Perspective. But there are as many new perspectives as there are people writing about it.