I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel.

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.

When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'emBut you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em

Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.

I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups.

"What's the latest dope on Wall Street?" "My son!"

I'm not a fighter by nature, but, if I believe in something, I stand up for it.

Graham Yost is a genius, and I know that very well because we worked together on 'Band of Brothers' and 'Boomtown.'

When we leave Mass, we ought to go out the way Moses descended Mt Sinai: with his face shining, with his heart brave and strong to face the world's difficulties.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

How much better my life has been for knowing him. For loving him, even if it's only in the limited way that I can manage. But I never get the chance.