With effort we can protect the foundation of our democracy, for which so many marched across this bridge, the right to vote.

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.

Eric has said that I carry close to my chest a ball of barbed wire that I sometimes throw at other people.

In science ... "discovery" can mean finding a guppy with an extra spine in its dorsal fin.

The Fed's independence is critical.

I don't understand how they can call me anti-Latino, when I've made four movies in Mexico.

I was a die-hard fan of these books [The Hobbit] before the films ever came out. And when I say die-hard, I wasn't the person who could speak Elvish, but I really loved them.

Have I done what is really important today?

When you enjoy what you do, work becomes play.

The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests.

I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.

Our attention to each breath keeps us in the now.