It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

Children reinvent your world for you.

Happiness is the true beauty weapon.

I believe in using words, not fists.

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.

If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family.

Silence is a language in itself. Perhaps the loudest and most beautiful of them all!

It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us.

In many ways [those middle-aged black ladies] my touchstone, because they are what I meant when I talked about the audacity of hope.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.

A fella who accepts himself and is relaxed into who he is - that appeals to people.

You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.

In fact, the Gospel shows us change comes from the bottom rather than the top, from an old rugged cross rather than a gold royal throne.

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think.

The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.