In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

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.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

You get changed by the Bill Belichick way, you get changed by the Patriot Way.

Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.

I would do anything to be around music. You don't even have to pay me.

The future of punk rock has nothing to do with guitars. Everything interesting that I've heard in years has been nearly all electronic.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.

Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.

My daughters have grown up knowing all about my kidnapping and the case and what happened.

The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made Higher and broader, or he will hardly get in.