The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.

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.

When someone else doesn’t believein you or your dreams, rememberit’s about them, not you.

Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.

The best theology is probably no theology; just love one another.

Bill Cosby was the first comedian I was exposed to, because he doesn't curse.

I've done a lot of drama in my career, but I'm actually more comfortable doing comedy.

We don't want to go back to the same policies and practicies that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led to this catastrophe. We keep moving forward.

Whatever you build, youre building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.

Like it or not, males have a tendency to wander a little bit. What you want to do is make a home so wonderful that he doesn’t want to wander.

Hobbies are for people that don't like what they're doing.

More energy is encapsulated in every drop of good spring water than an average-sized PowerStation is presently able to produce.