My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

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.

If no one ever deviated from currently accepted mainstream Science - we would still have the Flat Earth Society!

Love your enemies and hate your friends, your enemies remain the same your friends always change

If you can see everything in all directions, there is no such thing as up or down, left or right.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,while visions of sugar plums danced in their heads.

Because I was surrounded by so much negativity at some point that it took me going back and doing stand-up to realize, you know, people really like me.

Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being.

Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

There's fire in my fingers. I burn everything I touch.