There are some exceptions: Chicago, my hometown, in particular. But overall in the country this is a much safer place than it used to be.

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.

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course

He was changed, burned, branded, destroyed and rebuilt. And he loved it.

The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.

Action is movement with intelligence

Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable

The use of isoquants to describe the production function did not develop to any great extent until the thirties.

Buy Space Ghost cereal, but don't eat the prizes.

In that film Love Story, there's a line, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." That's the dumbest thing I ever heard. Love means saying you're sorry every day for some little thing or other.

I'll keep doing the right things and the results will come

When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.