I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.

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.

The organized domestic terrorism of the general public is why many people regard the police as corrupt.

It was so hard to feel safe in the world when you were a girl.

Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'

As for myself, I was never against Russia.

Influencers influence people and the people who they influence.

When you spend all your time worrying that the devil is right behind you, eventually you start seeing him whether he's there or not.

Live long enough and all weaknesses will be illuminated, but again perhaps that is not all bad for cannot they then begin to become strengths?

Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won't quit.

In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human bliss to human woe.

The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.