Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do.

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.

You are not listening to a word I am saying . . . and I am making the most delightful plans for your future.

Writers are writing in every corner of the globe.Writers are writing, moreover, in rich countries and poor countries alike.

Kim Il Sung University is the central base for training national cadres and the highest institute of Juche-based science and education.

Where the dance of Meera and the silence of Buddha meet, blossoms the true philosophy of Rajneesh.

You should empower the creativity of others.

It is imperative to use forceful measures to force the regime to respect human rights.

An unhealthy soul requires a healthy body.

WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties.

It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers. Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what my daughter needs.

Ancient travelers guessed; modern travelers measure.