Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need.

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.

Teaching is a gift you give not only to others, but also to yourself. You give and you receive, you teach and you learn.

There is nothing more important in life than love.

All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.

Our internal artist is always our creative child.

Vulnerability is a wonderful thing. We're all so afraid to be vulnerable in this world.

Love the one who wears your ring. And cherish the children who share your name. Succeed at home first.

I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most memoirs are false novels.

It's not what you're wearing, it's the way you wear it.

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.

Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.