If school is about postponing the day you have to stand up in front of the world and put yourself at risk, the resistance would like to stay there forever.

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.

Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.

If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.

The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

Great work is not created for everyone. If it were, it would be average work.

How we respond to the opportunities and challenges of the outside world now determines how much the outside world values us.

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.That would be you.

A genius looks at something that others are stuck on and gets the world unstuck.So the question is: Have you ever done that?

The storm transforms the soul.

Love others, not because they deserve your love, but because you want to win their heart to create enduring peace.

Peace is the way, not the destination.

When we confront with reality, we not only loose peace of mind, but creative power and vision to respond our life.

People have opinions about everything and especially when you get into that world of animal rights or tree rights or whatever rights, they all have an opinion.

The stairway to the ministry is not a grand staircase but a back stairwell that leads down to the servants’ quarters.

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

I've always belonged to the street, and I always will. It's in my DNA.

With the opportunity we build today for a shared prosperity tomorrow, America will prevail. It begins with re-electing Barack Obama.

The summer's flower is to the summer sweet Though to itself it only live and die