We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions

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.

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.

The iPad - is that a phone or a computer? If I put it on my wall is it a TV?

We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up.

One way to learn to do something right is to do something wrong. Failure must teach us, or surely success will not reward us.

Today's students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.

Thank you, God, for bringing me success in my life.

I will never fully understand; that is the nature of such creatures. Or is this Inner Truth now, this that is happening to me? I will wait. I will see. Which it is. Perhaps it is both.

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.

The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.