By the end of this decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out of the Pacific, because the United States is and always will be a Pacific power.

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.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth, " and so it goes away. Puzzling.

The sky is not your limit...your beliefs are.

Stepping to me? Yo, that's the wrong move. So what you on, hobbs, dope or dog food?

The reward in heaven is the perpetual bait, a bait that has caught man in an iron net, a strait-jacket which does not let him expand or grow.

Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli.

All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external happiness of elevated office.

Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.

Summer is the sweet spot of the movie-going season -- and it's also peak season for Six Flags theme parks.

We’re in the midst of a boom in home-based businesses, and it shows no sign of slowing.

Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.