Do something, Congress. Do anything.

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.

Comrade, you can deceive us. Anyone can―for a time. But not a very long time.

I'm a magician. I've learned to do some really cool tricks like levitating myself and melting forks.

People that really know me, they adore me.

Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'.

You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.

Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect.

If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money...

Nobody really wanted to do that one European tour. For one, it was budgeted to lose money. They would've made something, but I would've lost a lot of money.