I will eliminate capital-gains taxes for the small businesses and the startups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow

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.

She had words in her heart which she released thru her fingertips.

Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it.

Sometimes you have to control your own life and to do that you have to put your own needs first.

A majority opinion does not represent the ultimate decision because such a view is not unanimous and lacks general will.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.

I've seen it too many times in Hollywood. Talking about a relationship in public can jinx it. And if you have your picture taken together, you might as well start packing your bags.

I can do whatever I want.

If you’re really looking for answers, look past me. But if you’re interested in how I got to where I am, I will be as honest as possible.