If a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant.

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 is not important how successful you are, the only thing that matters is how good a person you are...

Never allow anyone who has not invested in you to define you. You always need to see proof of a Return on Investment.

I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.

Some people are swimmers and they're born to swim. They're like fish in the water. I will definitely say it's someplace that I feel at home.

You get diarrhea out here, you dehydrate from the inside out - you leave the gene pool.

Every individual has a unique contribution.

'Best Man Holiday' was a very successful film.

The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions.

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears!