Over the last several days, we have heard from members of Congress who want their voices to be heard. I absolutely agree.

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 you try to find success in fame or in things, you will fail. If you find happiness is the process you will be a success.

I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to have. But at the same time, we can choose to focus on the beauty of now.

I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.

I was often getting hired to play sociopaths and psychopaths and stuff, which is really funny.

If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife.

I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.

There's not much out there that people are fighting for that leaves them with nothing but honor.

God made us in His own image so that His image would be shown.

If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.