Weapons of war have no place on our streets.

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.

The fact that compulsive drives for success will arise only in a competitive culture does not make them any less neurotic.

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common with somebody - we can still talk because we were raised by the same TV and cartoons and movies.

Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

You are the sunshine of my life! Thanks for brightening my world with the warmth of your Love.

In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more than 2 million and made it the largest single labor union the world.

The Savior accomplished the Atonement, which resolves the most terrible burdens that can occur in this life.

An actor is an expert at being someone else. A speaker is an expert at being themselves.

The world is a den of crazies.