We [USA] don't have diplomatic leverage to eliminate every vestige of a peaceful nuclear program in Iran. What we do have the leverage to do is to make sure that they don't have a weapon.

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.

It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.

No matter what you want to do, you still have to start where you are.

If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity.

I hope and pray to live the gospel. It is light and life to all who desire this great spiritual awaken.

The most fulfilled among us are those who serve others.

I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.

What I like to do is come in, write the entire program and treat my staff to hot stone massages.

God is so big He can cover the whole world with His love, and so small He can curl up inside your heart.

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

I hope my music sets up the platform for me to be able to do lots of things - to have a cowboy-boot line, maybe, or do a perfume or makeup deal.