I'd like to think that "President Obama believed deeply in this democracy and the American people."

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.

I said "Somebody should do something about that." Then I realized I am somebody.

My old ways were much more appealing than my new ways.

In that case, which would be the lesser of two evils—terror cabin with a psycho or beach estate with a weirdo?

"Safety first" has been the motto of the human race for half a million years but it has never been the motto of leaders.

My father always told me, you can only be your own best. In other words, if you feel you've done your best, you've done well enough.

Will you give me another chance?” Robert repeated. Smiling, Dougless kissed him on the cheek. “No,” she said, “although I thank you very much for the offer.

I'm one of 23 million Americans in recovery who have gone on to live productive lives.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.

A maiden hath no tongue--but thought.