Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect.

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.

Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced

Stability and security are just illusions. But they are necessary illusions because without them there would be no way of going on.

Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole.

Love's a thin Diet, nor will keep out Cold.

There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions.

You know it's real when you are who you think you are

Be rigorous about your HR decisions. There is a difference between rigorous and ruthless.

I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.

All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.

Who would be so mocked with glory, or to live But in a dream of friendship, To have his pomp and all what state compounds But only painted, like his varnished friends?