I would not advise people who feel strongly or are concerned about some of the issues that have been raised during the course of the [president electing] campaign.

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.

Surround yourself with people who respect and treat you well.

While I like people, I do also like being alone in a room and seeing what you can do with a particular theme or subject.

Humor needs to come in under cover of darkness, in disguise, and surprise people.

Life deals your hand and you play it.

That's right I never hold my tongue for saving face Even the mic feedback will humm "Amazing Grace"

I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born!

Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.

In the Seventies I was so scared I wouldn't go on stage.

It's always unfortunate when something gets misreported and the facts are not clear.

To understand hydrogen is to understand all of physics.