I said this right after the election - we have to remind ourselves we're on the same team. Vladimir Putin's not on our team.

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.

My life's an open book. Some of the pages are a little ripped, but it's open.

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Friends don't let heads drive drunk!

My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the world of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco.

What engenders hatred towards the Sharia? When people find their basic needs are not being met, then people just see it as unfair.

As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that.

The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

I always wanted to be a basketball player.

Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.

I was built with a love of the night and the unquiet coffin.