Justice needs to be served, what I think people of Baltimore want more than anything else is the truth. That's what people around the country expect.

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 takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.

Success is not a question of how much power or money you have acquired. It is a question of how satisfied you are with WHO YOU ARE.

If sacrifice is not the theme of my life, there’s no sense telling the story.

We can find the answers will seek in books.

Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much as I need to breathe, if not more.

You are unique in the world, a friend like no other. It’s so amazing that we have so much in common so your happiness is also mine.

Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.

I think Nine Inch Nails was a really big one for me, when I was 18. They really inspired me to start making my own music.

What is the world coming to, when you can't even trust a rogue vicar and her demon lover?

If I don't play for a while, it's just like getting hungry.