One thing I don't like is when you disrespect the law.

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 am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, I will dance over your dirty corpse.

If you're feeling pressure, then you shouldn't be here.

Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches.

The thing is, I would need the right producer [for dance-music album ], right? "Calling all dance music producers! I'm available.

I was a huge 'Sopranos' fan, obviously.

To command, you must first of all speak to the eyes.

See yourself living in abundance and you will attract it.

The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders!... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy!

To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life.

A woman's life in the orchestra is not as long as a man's; she is just not as good at 60 as a man is at 60.