You don't know how it would have turned out if [kids] would grown up in Chicago instead, and a more normal environment.

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.

You'd be surprised." Charlie said."You go to bed one night singing her a lullaby, and she wakes up listening to Limp Bizkit.""What the hell is Limp Bizkit?

My friends are everything without me but I am nothing without my friends.

The life each of us lives is the life within the limits of our own thinking. To have life more abundant we must think in limitless terms of abundance.

Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.

Every successful work of God must have opposition.

These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.

I feel bad only when I play badly. Fortunately, that happens rarely.

The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.

Love is much stronger than your fault could ever be.

Hardness ever of hardness is mother.