I've now been in 57 states. I think one left to go.

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.

Losses are comparative only imagination makes them of any moment.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

What bothers you isn't so much whether you're beautiful or not. What bothers you is the way that people stare.

The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology.

There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

I can't tell you how much I respect all the single parents out there doing it all solo.

Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.

I am too tall [to dance]. Tall people don’t dance. It’s just not right.

-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.

I'm not a guy who is going to make a lot of noise. I hope to lead by example.