B. D. Schiers

If you want to change the world, start with the next person who comes to you in need.

Insight emerges out of silence.

Treat everyone as if they were a guest in your own house, because in reality, they are a guest in your own world.

What will your children be teaching your grandchildren?

Scream in silence. Dance in stillness.

My entire life can be described in one sentence. It didn’t go as planned and that’s OK.

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility.

It isn’t true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

And I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.

I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.

I am not young enough to know everything.

These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends’ children… the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.

It’s just a matter of managing expectations. So for me, for example, you know, when your husband is President of the United States and you have children, something has got to give. I’ve made compromises in my life and my career, but I’ve also, in exchange, gained a wonderful platform to do some great work.