If there's even one thing we can do - even one life we can save - we have an obligation to try

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 really think that you have to find a partner that compliments you and is somebody that pushes you and is better at some things than you are, so they can push you to improve yourself as a person.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.

If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?

Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City.

Application of humility is service.

All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.

Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.