“Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.”

The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.

A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.

Why can’t I just eat my waffle?

Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.

On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream.

It’s not just enough to change the players. We’ve gotta change the game.

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.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.

Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.

I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.

We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

As we look forward to the New Year, let’s resolve to recommit ourselves to the values we share.

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or make up for their father’s mistakes.

I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.

I am as a speck of dust in the sun, and not even so much, in this solemn, mysterious, unknowable universe.

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.

You don’t need to define this moment, my child. You need only live it.

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, but we find things in us we didn’t even know existed.

Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.

If you hate much, punish much: if you hate little, punish little: punish as you hate. If you hate not at all, punish not at all