We've gotta restore the American people's confidence in the ethics process by ensuring that political self-interest can no longer prevent politicians from enforcing ethics rules.

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.

Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.

This life is a shadowy thing, lad. We live in a crowded space of lights and shadows, and when left to ourselves, we all too often fail to see the brightest light of all.

Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scornThe power of man, for none of woman bornShall harm Macbeth.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

Most saints live to regret their career choice.

My favorite time is late at night. I seem to wake up and want to work after 10pm, in my bubble of night.

Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times.

A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!