Our environment is too important to neglect and it's time for the federal government to focus on real solutions and live up to their promises.

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.

There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.

Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state.

The brain has a quality referred to as plasticity. The ability to form new neural pathways even into very old age. The brain is fluid, flexible and incredibly adaptable to new experiences.

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.

A black belt is a white belt who never quits!

Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one.

Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust.

Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive.