So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.

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.

That sin will never stand firm which is heartily prayed against....We must spread out all our case before our heavenly Physician, if He is to give us daily relief.

Real change happens on the level of the gesture. It's one person doing one thing differently than he or she did before.

Advertising signs: they con you into thinking you're the one That can do what's never been done That can win what's never been won Meantime life outside goes on all around you

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.

They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.

The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.

Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.

In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists

You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.

You too can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aim and destination.