On issues like Ukraine, on issues like Syria, we've had very significant differences [with Russia].

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.

I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.

Embrace your past, but live for now.

Duncan Edwards is the one person who, even today, I really felt inferior to. I've never know anybody so gifted and strong and powerful with the presence that he had.

Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones.

When Hillary Clinton tried to act holier than thou, it really doesn't work. It really doesn't.

The bitter winds in February were sometimes called the First East Winds, but the longing for spring somehow made them seem more piercing.

I'm not surprised if we begin to uncover the weapons program of Saddam Hussein - because he had a weapons program.

On Jose Gonzalez changing his name to Jose Uribe: 'He was definitely the player to be named later.'

I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.

I'm here today because I hated everything else.