I’m asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington...I’m asking you to believe in yours.

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.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

Life has dazzling beauty. To see it, open the window of the mind and remove the curtain of conformity.

Faith is not just thinking you can do things, but believing god can handle all things!

Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

We have to prepare our teenagers and our children for a world away from us. That requires explanations. That requires understanding.

He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know.

Oh my God, she was retarded and I was going to kill Jim.

Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.

There are a million things out there every single day that trigger me - songs, smells, even the season that we're in, fall. Something about the air.