Cutting our education budget, that's not a smart choice. That will not help America compete with China.

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 same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

True leaders inspire people to a bigger vision.

In Nigeria they convict by law, not by the truth

Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.

Change has no constituency and a perceived revolution has even less.

My whole day is built around meetings that can be achieved around bike rides. My contract actually offers me a free car from my home to my office and back, but I suppose I am addicted to cycling.

I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book.

Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief.

There is no more mercy in him than there is milk in a male tiger.