I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious.

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.

The amount of abhorrence that departs, that much of ‘Pure Love’ arises. When abhorrence goes away completely, then Pure Love arises in totality. This is the only way.

All the higher values in life get redefined on a regular basis for good

And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.

You can keep 'consumer' DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.

To worry is to add another hazard.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination.

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.

It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.

you [priests] are called 'another Christ.'