It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans [in social media] than it is to communicate complex policies.

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 are my favourite part of life.

To take away a man’s sanity, answer all his prayers and solve all his problems. Or give him everything and everyone he wants.

They're the first crew I've ever had and most of them even call me Captain. I'm going to miss them.

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.

To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.

I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.

While we teach, we learn.