“Young people are frustrated...they feel like the system itself failed them. Like the nation failed them. The country failed them."

"i have what i have and i am happy i’ve lost what i’ve lost and i am still happy"

"Privacy is the right to the self. And how does that happen? That happens by trying things and failing. And then trying again and succeeding."

"Just fall on your face. Who cares? Really, it’s the only way you’re going to learn. The only way. God help you if you never fail.”

“The time after college is a time to take some risks and do whatever it is that’s in your heart. The main philosophy that I took upon graduating was that I was more scared of regret than rejection.”

“The Achilles heel of the most powerful nation on earth is the oil we cannot live without."

"It's very hard to write regulations that will keep people from acting foolishly, particularly when acting foolishly has been proven very profitable over the preceding few years."

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“They were telling me I was stupid and I wasn’t going to be anybody. And I said, ‘We’ll see.’ And from that day forward I was on a mission. And my mission was one thing, above all else: No one would ever laugh at me again.”

“We live in a world in which courage is in much shorter supply than genius."

“Broadway theaters by law have to be accessible for audience members with disabilities...It should be the same for someone in the show.”

“I’d learned quickly, as a matter of survival, that I needed to take opportunities as they came—if they came—and to look forward to the future.”

“The crime of enslavement is at the root, which extends through the trunk and out into the branches and into the leaves of this country, and you cannot get away from it...you take slavery away, you don’t have a country. You take away the labor and the profits that were made, and you don’t have a country.“