I do not want two classes of citizens in this country. I want everybody to prosper. That's going to be a top priority.

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.

To think is good. To obsess is bad.

Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.

Love is the ultimate style.

Best to live lightly unthinkingly.

You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.

My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight

I want to see the birth of my baby. Hopefully it's a boy. He can play for St. John's.

Deciding what to be is more important than deciding what to do.

Hard times produce your greatest gifts.

I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.