We've seen how militarized gear can sometimes give people a feeling like there's an occupying force, as opposed to a force that's part of the community that's protecting them and serving them.

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.

Larry broke my morose train of thought with his laughter. "Welcome to America, " he said, "where even our zombie epidemic has an obesity epidemic.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy.

There are few things in life that are harder to find and more important to keep than love. Well, love and a birth certificate.

A basis for much of the pain women suffer in real life is they must somehow resolve their devotion to men.

Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story.

My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.

If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.

Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?

I'M FREE! - I'm free, And freedom tastes of reality, I'm free - I'm free, An' I'm waiting for you to follow me.