And terrorists who seek to harm our citizens will feel the long arm of American justice.

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.

Life is a wave of love in the ocean of humanity.

You are not born with beauty, your beauty is created by who you are. Your inner beauty is more important than how people see you on the outside.

only you can decide how your fires will affect you. Will you be sanctified or scarred

There are plenty of opportunities for common grounds that we need to explore and strengthen. The Hispanic community has a strong affinity for our relationship with Israel.

Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, doesn't make them any less hideous.

A hard heart makes for hard judgments; a compassionate heart understands the humanity of the one we presume to judge.

The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority.

It's fun to be amazing, to be the star of the show, to have everyone watching you-even if you have to act like a pig.

We do not admire a man of timid peace.

Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.