But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

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.

Never laugh at your wife’s choices… you’re one of them

When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined to ask, "Who are you whom the world has disappointed? Have not you rather disappointed the world?"

Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.

You go in and record and sing them some and you go back in and rerecord and sing them some more. That's kind of how I did this album [The Art of Elegance].

Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.

Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.

Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result.

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.

Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.