The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether government works.

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.

The only way to get the best out of the diminishing life is to invest it into the fulfilment of your purpose.

I love science fiction, always have, always will. But it’s the kind of science fiction that I love which I think is an important distinction.

People in a hurry cannot think cannot grow nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

My hair does get really frizzy, so I use a de-frizzing serum from Bumble and Bumble, and also Moroccan Oil is some really good stuff. Plus, I can't live without my Burt's Bees lip balm!

There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.

It's nice to know that [God] can destroy us in a myriad of ways.

Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.

The price of freedom is death.

The key to a good relationship is the key. Give me back the key.

Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.