The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.

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.

People lose their pleasures because they "don't care". Others misuse their treasures because they "care less". If you'll win, you must care!

You should've mentioned you were bringing a beautiful woman. I would've combed my hair.

You have touched me more profoundly than I thought even you could have touched me - my heart was full when you came here today. Henceforward I am yours for everything.

Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.

Fear's contagious, but so is courage.

No man is obliged to be what he might have been.

I was made at right angles to the world and I see it so. I can only see it so.

Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.

I was a baseball fan, at any rate.

If I only dated actresses, Id be a very lonely man.