America will rise again. And hope will rise again.

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.

There was a sudden stillness like the gap between ticks on a clock, but the next tick never coming.

Time passes so fast. Make time to be still.

Seek not outside yourself heaven is within.

After I left the podium in Atlanta, I felt so fulfilled in my career that I lost my desire to compete at that level again.

I like to see how people interact with each other and I draw from that. I'm inspired by that.

You may have to live in a crowd, but you do not have to live like it.

If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could've won.

People say money ain't nothing; money is basically everything.

The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.

We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.