[White House is] the finest prison in the world.

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 true value of a gift is the sentiment behind the gifting.

A true visionary has a purpose for those without vision!

Whatever you would have your children become strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.

If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it, you write about it.

Right now I feel that I've got my feet on the ground as far as my head is concerned.

We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other.

I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis.

I always find it a little scary to say that I'm like a character.

I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.