Most people who serve in Washington have been trained either as lawyers or as political operatives--professions that tend to place a premium on winning arguments rather than solving problems.

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.

The abundance of small things, it'll bury you.

Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room

I work to stay alive.

Forgive me now - tomorrow I may no longer feel guilty.

I see a world in the future in which we understand that all life is related to us and we treat that life with great humility and respect.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

We want to be proud of our work and make sure it's worth the talent of the animators, who spent four years of their love, sweat and tears on it.

The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish.

Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown.

Success is a wonderful addition to my life.