It requires enormous energy for us to cut the African American uninsured rate by a third. A lot of scars.

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.

He doesn't yearn for a better, different life than the one he has - because he knows he's got a home in this one.

...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially long-headed ones

The idea that you will make the right decision every time is very unlikely.

I quit school and it's not because I'm lazy. I'm just not the social type and campus life is crazy.

I love actors. I married one. OK, I married a fantastic one.

A beautiful person is someone who stays true to themselves and their spirit; someone who is self-confident and can make you smile.

(after listening to people gripe and complain just smile and remember) Crows can’t hang with eagles.

If your Olympic Hero were to use the Worm in the 1996 Olympic Games, it would be so embarassing to all the other atheletes - and our country, mind you- that the USA would have finished behind Guam.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

The notion of auspiciousness is something positive, something with forward momentum, coming out of our actions.