As you get older, your mind gets a little more set. And it needs the poking and prodding and breaking through of stereotypes that I think young people provide.

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 never cared,” he said. “I wanted you anyway. I always wanted you.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.

I almost stand in awe when I think of Joseph Smith. The angel appeared to him in 1823 - he said to this simple little boy, 'Your name should be known for good and evil throughout the entire world.'

But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business!

The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.

For me, reading is reading.

A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.

People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.