I don't look at my pension. It's not as big as yours so it doesn't take as long.

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.

Learning how to learn is a lifelong process.

Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp.

Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.

Make it just like a Mac.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.

Faith without challenge is nothing.

What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?

I’m not super thin, but I’m thin, for like, Detroit

If you honestly believe that," said Thorne, stowing the gun again, "then you really don't recognize true value when you see it.

What I do is I'm a bandleader, frontman, entertainer.