Anybody who gets into bed and turns out the lights the first night in the White House probably feels a little bit of a start, where you say, "Goodness ... "

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.

If you can imagine a thing, then it has already existed, somewhere, somewhen, somehow.

We need to be on guard against greed . . . above all we need to make sure our lives are centered in Christ and not things.

I don't know why I can't let the insults go, but I can't. I'm the product of every hurt that's ever been laid on me.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

Don't block your blessings. Don't let doubt stop you from getting where you want to be.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism

I understand that change is frightening for people, especially if there's nothing to go to. It's best to stay where you are. I understand that.