I'm never surprised by controversies that are whipped up in Washington.

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.

Only the honorable people resist the injustices! The rest - the honorless - are afraid of even their own shadows!

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

You know what they say: 'Once you go black, your parents don't talk to you anymore.

There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it.

If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist

For what could be more beautiful than the heavens which contain all beautiful things.

I like the experience of being in a shoot, and I'm a total exhibitionist, but I don't like to look at them.

If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society, then we won't be creating appropriate cultural markers.

There are no bad drugs. There's simply stupid people who don't know how to use them.