Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.

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.

I have seen the light in the wilderness and I must follow it.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Law school has been described as a place for the accumulation of learning. First-year students bring some in; third-year students take none away. Hence it accumulates.

The wisdom that living brings, since I got a telegram from the God of simple things.

Take off your watch: the divine is speaking to you.

There is nothing wrong with trying to exploit the natural human tendency to become impatient when forced to play a boring position.

Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.

The Bible is not God, nor is it a substitute for God, and to treat it as if it were God or a surrogate of God is to treat it in the very way that it itself condemns over and over again.

If it ain't broke, you can probably still fix it.

Just because I'm country music don't mean I don't have a little bit a' soul down in there somewhere.