The framers, in their wisdom, designed the [political] system so that power's pretty disbursed.

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's no way that you're real, ” she murmured to his crotch.

I will fight death for my right to live until my last breath.

The serenity prayer, 'God grant me the strength to accept...' That's a prayer that's actually in my car. I say it every day.

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

Galois read the geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

Make the second effort your second nature.

The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.

Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.

Our history is an aggregate of last moments

When I commit to working with an artist, I give them as much respect as I would like and if I'm not going to commit that way, then I don't want to work with you.