Yes We Can!

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.

Don't kiss me like a woman if you're going to treat me like a child.

She was infamous once upon a time. She's legendary now. The girl is a definite force to be reckoned with, though perhaps she doesn't know it yet.

Never speak of defeat before battle.

These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.

If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room, you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything.

There are two rules for achieving anything. Rule No. 1: Get started. Rule No. 2: Keep going.

Happiness is not dependent upon outer circumstance. Happiness is falling in love with everything around you, everything inside of you.

My employer uses twenty-six years of my life for every year I get to keep. And what do I get in return for the enormous thing I am giving? What do I get in return for my life?

The neuroscience of consciousness is not going to stop in its tracks because some philosophers guesses that project cannot be productive.

We have got to encourage other nations also to come along with us with the impacts of climate change, what we can do about that.