If we're trying to protect the American public, we should not put in place a travel ban.

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.

Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

She had had no idea what it would do to her seeing him in a suit.

Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.

Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.

The harmonica is the most voice-like instrument, you can make it wail, feel happy, or cry. It's like singing the blues without words.

I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.

Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.

Sitting down and sharing a meal together combines two of my favorite loves: eating great food and talking about great food.

Whenever I have tried to do anything For Money it has always led me astray.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.