If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

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.

Truth is irrelevant

The leader turns the pyramid onto its head in order to serve others.

Live your life in such a way that when you die, you're the one smiling and everyone around you is crying

I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.

Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.

I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do

A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.

All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad.

A horrible script 99 percent of the time means a horrible movie. But if you start with a good script, odds are you're going to have a good movie.

When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself.