I do think that you're starting to see young people pay attention to some longterm issues that they feel Washington has neglected.

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.

To help people is to help God

Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.

Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl?The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.

The Democrats believe that if God did not want them to raise taxes, He would not have created the Internal Revenue Service.

Everything you look at now, the scripts that come in that you look at, the television scripts are way better than the movie script. The talent is going to television.

I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious.

I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.

The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me.

If ever I were to have a symbol attributed to me, it would be a heart, the outline!

No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief.