I don't expect to get 100 percent of what I want, but what we can't do is go back to the kind of top-down economics that doesn't work.

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.

Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!

Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

It's not always going to be smooth sailing or everyone will do it. If you have something people want, it should be the perfect recipe for success.

I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot.

Put on your adidas and step off.

The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.

As grateful as we are for all the work the community health centers do, it is also important that we recognize that they cannot solve the health care crisis facing our Nation by themselves.

There are three floors beneath the garage? Why on earth?" -Mac

A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.

Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything.