Politics didn't lead me to working people. Working people led me into politics.

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.

Only when you verbalize your interests will the Universe be able to come to your aid.

One of my dreams was to change the way women of color were seen on television.

A big part of filmmaking is gathering a group of people you can work with.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

The practice of all ages and all countries (whether Christian or heathen, polite or barbarous) hath been ... to do honour to those who are invested with public authority.

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

I'm a guy so I equate vulnerability with fear.

Any man who pursues for peace is a remarkable man!

So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?" Now that, I think, is a very good asking.

I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak.