We want our children to live in an America...that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.

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.

I got real important relationships in my life that are very empowering relationships.

It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.

Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up.

Helping people helps defines a strategy that makes public and private moneys more effective when it comes to helping save lives.

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love―just enough to feed the birds.

Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.

I won't do a reunion tour unless my solo career fails miserably.

I hope I'm not just looked as a writer that is popular but as a writer of literary value.

It's interesting to see people's projections because one lives very much in the world of projections.