This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class.

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.

Books aren't written, they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it...

There's just no quiet in Vegas.

It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.

My goal is to be the best fighter in the world, UFC Heavyweight Champion. There is no back-up plan.

Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.

To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.

In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.

Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.

Andy Johnson was literally banjoed out of the game

Well, I'm a Catholic by birth and you can never shed it.