Let's face it, I like Stanford grads. I'd always hear about this campus, and everybody is riding bikes, and people hopping into fountains.

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 cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond

It's quite hard to faze me. I'm fairly un-shockable.

Dreams seem to have a will of their own.

My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.

All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.

Old pond, frog jumps in - plop.

I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account.