The last thing that I want to do is to have the United States be a foil.

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 I could make a dream real, I would not kill anything unless it could never be changed at heart.

You're going on birth control...or I will smash your truck-Allison Young

I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.

Yeah, some kids called me fish lips because I had these really full lips. Now I'm sure all those same girls are getting collagen injections, so I'm having the last laugh.

I'm always kind of in my head thinking.

You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.

the rich are different only because people treat them as if they were.

The words are in my own internal language, and mean more than I could ever explain.

You don't see your own face, your own beauty Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours.......... .

A human being can spend only so much time outside her comfort zone before she realizes she is still tethered to it.