You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

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.

Never underestimate the power of Faith because when nothing seems possible, Faith makes it possible.

There's no such thing as emotion.It's only body chemistry in action.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.

Being remembered, and remembered so kindly, touched him more than he would have thought possible.

I try to stay under the radar.

My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around.

I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.

My stage show is raw and unpredictable.