[Afghanistan and Iraq] are still countries that are fragile enough that we're gonna have to partner with them in some way.

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.

Peace is a new father Searching for a jobWith courage and vigorWith a smile and rigorBut with a great need for money.

I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the emphasis where I think it belongs.

If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully

When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

Tomorrow is no place to place your better days.

Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.