[The Democrats] have got to do a better job of showing up.

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.

If not for tragedy, tyrants, and injustice, there would be nothing to awaken and inspire dormant heroes. There is always a balance. Always.

I want to celebrate the sadness that makes you feel everything so deeply. I want to throw a party for the wounds that make you so unabashedly human.

[M]editation is the life of of most other duties

Hurt? He'll never be hurt–he's made to other people.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

What great comedians, great comic writers, great comic actors do is that they just read the headlines with the right eyebrow position and it's funny.

our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

Perfection cannot be reached, because nothings perfect. But things can change, and so can people

I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio.

I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.