Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

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.

Love opens your heart, trumps fear, and paves the way for healing in all aspects of your life.

Why do we insist women are cast 10 years younger than the role they're playing? Men don't know what a 30-year-old is supposed to look like because on TV she's always 20.

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.

The way to keep weeds from overwhelming you is to deal with them constantly and in their early stages.

The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.

You don't take insults. You leave them with the insulter.

Who knows what part we play in other people's dreams?

Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward.

Go to the people Live among them Learn from them Love them Serve them Plan with them Start with what they know Build on what they have.