Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true.

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.

Life always has some surprises up its sleeve!

Horses ... horses made me happy, complete. Then and there in the middle of some state, in a wild state of being, I vowed I would own a horse again.

How did pretty little Anna go from Westchester suburb brat to New York hooker? Now that’s a story.

Suffering gives us no special rights.

I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning.

I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart.

I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I'd want to do is hit them with a pot.

I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.

If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.

I think it is important to be aware that the Internet has replaced the television, and has become a place where the uniformity of human society is accelerated.