Every president who has tried to bring about big changes I think elicits the most passionate responses.

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.

Great journey, great joy.

As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue.

Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.

Unless the Bible is first taught to our own hearts, then we have no basis from which to teach it to others at all.

Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.

True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.

Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact.

You can take care of yourself, and God helps those who help themselves.

World don't need chiefs. We need engaged, talented leaders.

It's not about getting what you want. It's about experiencing what you really need by becoming more.