America, our endless blessings bestow an enduring burden. But as Americans, we welcome our responsibility to lead.

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.

Live now, die later!

A story is inside of us all. Each word and sentence is alive and we grace the pages to keep it from dying.

Guilt is a waste of time unless you learn how to be more loving the next time a similar situation presents itself.

I think that it is a great achievement to put a person on the moon. But to put a person on the earth-that is even more.

It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

You bet your bindi that’s how big I want it.

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart.