We're not products of our environments, we're products of our expectations.

My mother is extraordinary; she's a superwoman, like so many other single mothers who are out there.

The young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.

When it is time for you to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were even here.

Potential is universal, opportunity is not.

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

But really, where leadership is born and where leadership is really bred is.

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

The importance of education plays a huge role.

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.

I don't think there's any accidents in my life.

The universe is complicated and we're not going to get it all in one night or one incarnation or one infinity.

The truly holy person welcomes all that is earthly.

Religions don't own compassion; it is a human virtue.

I feel like I'll always be a brunette, that's just who I am, but I love that I can switch it up and be whatever I want to be.

Nobody in the Senate on a bipartisan fashion trusts the Iranians. They lie. They cheat. They're a murderous regime. They've been trying to develop a nuclear weapon.

Success is only meaningful - and enjoyable - if it feels like your own.

Keep on rockin' in the free world.