Public school system status quo is indefensible.

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.

We explore to experience, we eat to live and we hate to love

Alcohol is good for killing microbes. It does mean that it also kills macrobes (human).

My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people.

This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.

Our sons and daughters must be trained in national service, taught to give as well as to receive.

I will be a role model for cancer patients for the rest of my life. But you know what? When I was getting chemo, those people inspired me.

I've written 90 percent of the songs in my career, on all my albums.