If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.

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.

...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.

Something was bleeding… and something was broken. It was my heart… because I had to leave you. (Chase to Rayne)

Life is a great big canvas

As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption.

In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship.

Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car.

The car crash that took the lives of these two lovely people has been portrayed as a traffic accident caused by a drunk driving at high speed. The reality is that it was murder.

I think Stockman is an interesting sort of amalgam.

Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.

The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.