As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

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.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

I would like people to remember of me, howinexhaustible was her mindfulness.

The lack of culpability of the perpetrator and his or her transference of blame onto alcohol or other substances only perpetuates the violent behaviors.

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.

...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants.

I don't want last season to be as good as I get.

He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.

I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

After 'Big Brother,' people came up to me in the street shouting, 'You woz robbed!'