And I want to work with this Congress, to make sure Americans already burdened with student loans can reduce their monthly payments, so that student debt doesn't derail anyone's dreams.

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.

With heavy rainfall, the river will overflow its banks.

A failed personal experience is just fear and anxiety.

I still am a geek, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I see no shame in having an unhealthy obsession with something.

THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID: "You should come with me to church.

My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me.

Even my nighttime dreams are very, very rooted in reality. They just start to become surreal, little by little.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human nose can discover it, but a carrion bird or a carrion fly can smell it from afar.

The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.

I always treat all the jobs I do as an acting class.