You can't change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside.

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.

Come to think of it, she did not speak a word. Yet I could have sworn she had the most beautiful voice.

When your past shows up to haunt you, make sure it comes after supper so it doesn't ruin your whole day.

Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

I think it's critical that we return national security issues to the center of the overall political debate in America.

A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

After doing STAR TREK for so many years, to do just regular makeup is such a treat. Just put some makeup on and "thank you very much," you're on your way.

I'm severely conservative.

We dominate a horse by mind over matter. We could never do it by brute strength.

If you know how to get fun out of the so-called discomforts, then you should know you are on the right lines.