The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.