When I was in Washington, I would usually get home from the Capitol at about 7:30 or 8, and I would try to write as much as possible. It was almost all in the wee hours.

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.

Temptation is not to be feared, but controlled.

Saddest thing nowadays is that words can kill

Most of my money remains in England, although my unworthy carcass may not under usual circumstances ...

Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.

Our achievements may make us interesting, Tyler, but our darkness makes us lovable.

The marathon never ceases to be a race of joy, a race of wonder.

I like burritos more than Jesus because steak burritos are delicious. And they're real.

In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.

There is no question that love is not the answer to.

I hosted Soul train but I listen to everything.