I think that there have been a number of public figures where you start hearing commentary that is dangerous because what it starts doing is it starts dividing us up as Americans.

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.

You don't know what cold is until you've experienced the cold you feel when the blood is draining out of your body.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own.

The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.

The problem of defining exactly what is meant by the signal velocity, which cropped up as long ago as 1907, has not been solved.

There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

Fighting with self!! Why not? If we can live in harmony with self, we also have a full right to fight ourselves as well.

We've been expected to be perfect but we aren't. We're still human.

There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.

I liked actions movies. Jean-Claude Van Damme was a major influence on me at that point in my life.