“I nearly believe you. The challenge remains extended-make me believe you -- Benjamin”

“you have to believe in yourself when no one else does that's what makes you a winner”

“Some people say I have attitude--maybe I do...But I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does--that makes you a winner right there.”

“People want to believe bad things, I tell myself, glaring around at my classroom. They want to believe the most shocking story. They see you as the worst version of yourself.”

“In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.”

“I believe music is a place everyone of us can go to. I don’t care who you are, where you were born, what you do with your life. Everyone can come here in music and be equal.”

“Hang together, or hang separately. Benjamin Franklin is a genius.”