National legislation will prevent other states' flawed concealed-weapons laws from threatening the safety of Illinois residents.

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.

Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.

That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.

Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow.

The information on a baby born to Vladimir Putin is false. I am going to ask people who have money to organize a contest on the best media rumor.

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.

Appearances matter — and remember to smile.

I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.