We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on a country through military force.

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.

If you are a local church or non-profit, you live and die with volunteers.

It would be an exaggeration to say I’m not afraid of death, but I’m not afraid of what comes after, because I’m not a believer.

Yes, I have patterns of love addiction. But I'm a woman. Of course I do.

Clea and I were touring one of the cathedrals in Italy, and in front of the whole tour I go 'That's so cute! Look, they have birdbaths in the church!

Hi, Miss Alice What kind of dreams do you see with your eyes of glass? Do they fascinate you?

I fly with the stars in the skies I am no longer trying to survive.

Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43.

To know is not less than to feel.

Great songs aren't written, they're rewritten

Every step is a first step if it's a step in the right direction.