Their foreign policy is so disjointed, confusing, and chaotic that, really, people need to reexamine those who want to be involved in every war.

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.

The best tool in a writer's arsenal is a reader's imagination.

When two people got cross with each other and stop talking, the deep silence in the air will continue to speak glowingly!

Wise kings generally have wise counselors and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.

Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.

I know guys that are going to struggle. I know guys that don't play and 'bean' up. To me, that's becoming pretty reliant on something. It's going to have an effect. I don't think there's any doubt.

Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.

Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new.

If you could leave your selfishness, you would see how you've been torturing your soul.

I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.