I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manufacturer's lobby.

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.

It's a house. No more and no less. There isn't a structure on earth that could last forever. But a family goes on."-Leo

When imagination changes from hoping to knowing, it makes things real.

My father said this to me: "Israelmore, if you don't make any impact on earth, you will die before you die. But if you impress hearts with what you do, you still live even after you are gone

Death by hanging... well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.

And I sing and sing of awful things The pleasure that my sadness brings.

The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is, that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead.

Freedom of speech is a two way street, man. You have the right to say whatever you want and the Boss has a right to tell the police to arrest you.

I've been wanting to have my own family since I was young. It just took me a while to find the perfect woman.

When do you feel most authentic? Authenticity feels so natural, so why isn't it easy?

We love we know not what, and therefore everything allures us.