Iran won't pursue nuclear weapons because 'it's contrary to their faith.'

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.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

When you trust yourself, you will come out like a beautiful sunbeam through the dark clouds!

At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon the slave and slaveholder.

Trees, how many of 'em do we need to look at?

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

I have a tremendous respect for Professor [Frank Moore] Cross.

I got married to an amazing woman, had 2 awesome kids and toured with Jeff Beck, I can die a happy man now.

When I say I'm a true welterweight I'm talking about every fighter that has ever moved into the welterweight division.

I'm not one of those artists who refuses to play their hits. I find that ridiculous. Hits are a blessing.

Surely, that's what interns were invented for?