In Texas, we hold very dear to intrusions against our personal liberty. We fight very hard against that.

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.

How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.

Fear usually looks like anger.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

A small handgun makes any TV remote control.

Self-esteem is that deep-down inside the skin feeling you have of your own self-worth.

A script is like a theory of a movie.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

It's important to realize that words shape our beliefs and impact our actions.

I don't really get a chance to watch much television.