America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists.

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 best way to piss off your enemies is to out-succeed, out laugh and out live them.

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.

It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.

The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds; They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads; They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!

Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.

The plastic knife is perfect for when a person just wants to make some marks on his food and get insanely frustrated at the same time.

Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!

You might be a redneck if your satellite dish payment delays buying school clothes for the kids.

No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.

Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.