What is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests.

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.

Love rewards you more in a moment than pleasure could in a lifetime.

It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close.

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

All conflict comes from attachment.

Knowledge is the harvest of attention

Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.

The first good reason to write a book is to add value to people’s lives.

There are so many flaws, .. I don't think they can be fixed.

And then his noise falls completely silent- And he stops struggling- And looking right into my eyes- He dies. My Todd dies.

If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.