We reaffirm that on days like this, there are no Republicans or Democrats. We are Americans, united in concern for our fellow citizens.

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.

I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.

You can hold on to me for as long as you want. Let go of the pain, Sookie". - Eric, Club dead.

Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.

Life is a process of losing our illusions, until we finally lose the illusion that we're alive.

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

I see the world for what it is, beyond the white and the black.

Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book.

Why are you always smiling? What do you know?

The hallmark of an artist is generosity.

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.