A nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.

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.

The difference between those who adapted and those who didn't, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit.

She says the problem with most Christians is that they show up once a week to pray that God's will be done- and when it is, they complain.

This woman could make a saint sin.

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated.

If I had to depend on what I actually get from sales, I'd be tending bar between sets.

Progress occurs one apology at a time.

It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back...but God has a bigger shovel!