I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of, you know, fat cat bankers on Wall Street.

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.

Into the day as by dream I swim To the music of nourished meaning.

There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.

When I was growing up, I was eating fast food every day. I'd drink soda non-stop, candy, just everything. It was horrible. My go-to was McDonald's, for sure.

This is a dream come true. To wake up in a place that I own and go to work in New York City as an actor - I feel like Mary Tyler Moore throwing her friggin' hat in the air.

For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Well you've been brought here against your will, just like I have. If you ask me, we're all in the same boat. And it's leaking.

The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.

When you know the builder, you can have complete confidence in the quality of his work.

It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.