The Russians don't make determinations about what our defense posture is.

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.

The Chairman likes you.”“Is that good?”“I never date anyone my cat doesn’t like, ” Magnus said easily, and stood up.

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

I just play intuitively and work the same way in the studio. I don't have any magical effects or anything that helps me to get my particular sound.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

If you're at the sink washing the cup, wash the cup. Don't worry about everything else. ... We forget to appreciate the simplest moments of the day, the sublime in the ordinary.

We're all here to figure out how to best give ourselves away.

You must rise above The gloomy clouds Covering the mountaintop Otherwise, how will you Ever see the brightness?

Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.