It is time to leave behind the divisive battles of the past. It is time to move forward as one nation.

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.

I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach; really, there's no idea to which one doesn't get acclimatized in time.

When three persons work together, each can be the teacher in some aspects

I shoot an arrow into the air, where it lands I do not care: I get my arrows wholesale!

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time

I profoundly believe that the power of food has a primal place in our homes that binds us to the best bits of life.

There is a massive ecosystem that has to get built that looks like a biosphere. And the various parts of that biosphere better be there.

It was around 1985 before I heard the news of President Kennedy's assassination.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it.