All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations.

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.

You know, when the list of people who have a really good reason to want you dead covers more than two sheets of paper, you might want to start rethinking your life choices.

Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.

The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.

The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.

For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.

I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.

It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.

I wouldn't walk across the street to piss down Don Shula's throat if he was on fire.

I see only my objective - the obstacles must give way.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.