Whatever decisions I make are going to be based first on a strategy to keep us safe and then we'll figure out how to resource it.

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.

Moods can be contagious. Don't catch or spread a bad mood.

Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.

If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.

Traveling is really exhausting. That will force me into retirement.

Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations

Blending the talents of your team members is crucial to basketball success.

My main objective was finding my individuality as a vocalist.

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.

If you look at movies with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart and all the rest of it, none of them looks like a boy. They always looked like mature men. The audience didn't want to go and see kids.