A good GI bill would increase the recruit pool.

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.

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

Never cry for the same person twice.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing.

If you don't believe in a line, then you come off as the loser.

To know enough about things is one prerequisite for (having) wonderful ideas.

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.

The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.

The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.

Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.

Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.