Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.

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.

Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.

Everything I do is music-related.

If you were alone and suddenly became blind, and even so you keep walking forward.

God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.

Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated.

Scientists in Australia are working on making biodegradable car parts out of hemp. This might get confusing. When someone says, roll up the window, they might mean, roll up the window!

As soon as there's pain, you know the gold is just beneath.

Some of my favorite movies are Hollywood movies. Hollywood is part of the cinematic spectrum. I nurture a healthy love-hate relationship with Hollywood.

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.