There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President.

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 favour of God forfeits the failure of men.

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.

Theres some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.

If you begin to live life looking for the God that is all around you, every moment becomes a prayer.

I think actors really like to know what does a casting agent really think or what does a composer really think.

Fate is unpenetrated causes.

I went to Texas a few times for gigs and adopted the cowboy look. Every man, at some point in his life, goes through a cowboy stage - everyone! Well, at least everyone that I look up to!