The Democrats are using the human trafficking bill's language that's been there for 40 years, regarding the use of federal funds for abortion.

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 will gladly spend the rest of my days learning your secrets.

I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.

I have more concern for my nephew's welfare than for Lannister pride.

You only live once. Maybe twice.

A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

By the time we left college, I had become my own image: a dandelion in the flower bed of society. Kinda cute, but still a weed.

All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master.

I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.

People love escapism and there should be a place for it.