99.9% of plumbers make less than a quarter million dollars a year, and I'm going to give Joe a break whether he wants it or not.

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.

I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try to blend the two.

You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.

We believe only what we see. So, with television, we believe everything.

Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.

The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.

And lot of Asian audiences and reporters don't like me to act as a bad guy. But I think I want to become an actor, I want to try different way.

We must do better or perish as the nation we know today.

The major way to conquer fear is to make a decision.

My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out.

Grief dejects and wrings the tortured soul.