We've got a lot of work to do economically in this country to bring about a more just and fair economy.

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.

Can you imagine a scenario, given our present circumstances, in which human life will actually survive and be here in a thousand years?

I heard them tearing at it. It was the sound of mortality.

I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be my teachers. I'm interested in the whole process of editing, post-production and direction.

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?

Motivation is not a thinking word; it's a feeling word.

There have been many times when I've auditioned and I've actually won a different role in the same film.

I'm grateful. But Dre could not have done it without me. And I could not have done it without them.

My blood is no different from that of other martyrs.

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.