That is the true genius of America-a faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles.

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.

Spring is the only season that flutters in on gentle wings and builds nests in our hearts.

One's character is key to its fate and future of life that how one executes and prosecutes it.

After the brain surgery, I started the hard process of recovery.

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.

People, instead of competing, they can actually support each other, in music.

From time to time I think I made some errors in judgment, but I have some really fashionable friends and I feel I've cultivated my own sense of style and what I feel comfortable with over the years.

There are two noble things in life: one to do charity and other to look after your body.

There’s nothing more fierce than the female, like the momma lion. Believe me, my wife is a good example.

The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny