Do I need to apologize for Mr.[Tom] Coburn's statements? Because I certainly don't agree with those, either.

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.

You can't be like pop stars, but you can be part of their story. You can be their fan.

It is strangely wonderful to feel the lack of something instead of believing that it was never there in the first place.

The truth is now as it was yesterday, and as it always will be, that the world is-as we are

I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came.

Can they love without a word for it?

Machines are on track to be on par with human intelligence in less than 15 years.

From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.

One minute it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle, the next, no one wanted me.

We know you're stashing him, Cena!

I'm a great believer in getting checked out because if you know you're OK, you actually feel better; your mind plays a big part of it.