I think [ chief organizer of the Democratic Party ] it's something that I have an interest in.

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.

It's when we come to the end of ourselves that we come to the beginning of grace.

When you've been hurt by someone you love like he has, why would you ever seek love out? Why would you risk being hurt again?

Here is a greedy man who keeps to himselfThe beautiful pears ripe in his garden.

Great things are done more through courage than through wisdom.

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

Boxers are hot, and by boxers I mean guys who box, not the underwear. So get rid of 'em!

I don't go to mythical places with strange men.

I wondered if the Demon that whispered "Why not be free?" was Freedom itself.

Women do date better than men. They'll get prepared. Men just kind of show-up.

Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.