Mexico is going to need the United States to cooperate in order to rid itself of the violence and corruption that results from the drug trade.

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.

How can it hurt so much to love someone?

I have a room dedicated to music and recording. I go there first thing in the morning and just before I go to bed. And it has a window to my street, so I can watch all the crazies walking by.

If someone can write great music... Paul McCartney is a genius. He's so prolific. All we should do is bow down to Paul McCartney.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

When people have supernatural beliefs I think they should be respected but there is no reason why they need to impose them on others.

Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings.

I think that Detroiters are some of the most resilient people in the world.

As the owner of the company, I'm always focusing on how my company can do more for less. And it's one of the principles of the world.

In life nothing goes on for ever, even if it looks exactly as if it would.

And what are we doing if we are not doing God's Will?