The way we have to measure progress is not, "Is there ever going to be an incident of racism in the country?" It's, "How does the majority of our country respond?"

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.

Finding your purpose isn't enough. the challenge for our generation is creating a world where everyone has a sense of purpose.

moonlight the falsest the most languid the most petit-bourgeoisstrikes meI like it

A friend once said his father use to say "I don't want to be a millionaire I just want to live like one" if we could all be so lucky.

With every rising of the sun think of your life as just begun.

If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants.

I think everything keeps changing. There was a time when television was a bad thing for actors and it meant that you could only do television, and now we see everyone does television.

Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in thee and justice and temperance be extinguished before thy death?

Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem.

I don't want to have people get completely sick of me before I've ever even done something legitimate.

The thing always is to go to where people really are and what they're really feeling about life.