You can't manage [country] the way you would manage a family business.

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.

Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.

...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.

But sooner or later the last good time would come around. It does for all of us.

I don’t think it’s right that I’m part of the problem. I can’t be part of the solution if I’m part of the problem

If you want the answer to anything, go sit in Nature for awhile

Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

No rules according to the Universe. You provide the feelings of having it now; it will respond.

Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.

Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance.