We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.

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.

Three ways to Change: First is behaving Positively, Second is behaving Positively, and the Third is stop being Negative.

the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Harsh, bitter laughs exploded from her like shrapnel, and she didn’t care who was cut in the process.

To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.

I returned to confirm there can be no return.

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

Room service? Send up a larger room.

On MySpace ... the whole demographic of the stand-up comedy fan has changed. It's like an indie band thing. People think they've discovered you.

I like to be daring and I like to be different. You think anyone out here looks like me? It's pretty different, right?

At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it.