Our enemies are also seeking the abilities to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air traffic control systems.

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.

Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.

True expectations never ever go unnoticed. So expect happiness and expect abundance.

I love the different shades of colours. Purely beautiful!

A stupid mule is still smarter than a good horse or a bad man.

Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

I tried to go anorexic for a good three hours. I ate ice and celery, but that’s not even anorexic. And I quit. I was like, 'Ma, can you make me a sandwich? Like, immediately.'

Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.

I grew up around acting, but it was never thought of as a career.

For it's home, dearie, home--it's home I want to be. Our topsails are hoisted, and we'll away to sea. O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree They're all growing green in the old countrie.