My little girls can break my heart. They can make me cry just looking at them eating their string beans.

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.

Progression and regression go hand in hand with mental health. It is a tough illness. You often take one step forward and ten steps back.

We often hate others because we fail to understand them.

I make the choice because it is one I can live with.

In life we struggle to make sense of it all.When we should just except the way life is and make it better for all concerned.

Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments.

I haven't really ever had to audition for anything.

A deck of cards was built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it and a lackey to those above it.

[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.

Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar.

It's one of the nice things about this nation that when the Constitution is violated, if it affects you, you can bring a suit.