If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

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.

Konig couldn't help but think of the man as a slab of walking muscle with all the intellect of a pair of cheap shoes.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

But change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency.

Anybody who really knows about the TV business knows that it would be impossible to just march in one day and say to your colleagues and bosses, 'Oh yes, I'm hosting my own show.'

Close up your head; your brain is getting loose.

I don't wear fur and I understand their cause. I am the biggest animal lover in the world. I have four dogs and two horses, and I have rescued animals all my life.

I can say, particularly as a mother of four small children. I can talk about the coarsening of our culture.

We can either help to make this world a more incredible place than it has ever been, or we can hasten its return to inorganic dust.

Act before you think - your instincts are more honest than your thoughts.

There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism.