I don't want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be President of the United States of America.

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'm backing down now. I really do love you. That's why I'm doing this.

To express your love for the universe, be like a cloud to dwell in the high altitudes, and never forget to transform yourself into the water of humility.

Wherever you go, go with love.

There is no calling of God to man on earth but what brings with it the evidence of its authenticity.

I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question.

Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are hungry, jobless and worshipping in storefronts?

A piece of football history. A unique coach [Sir Alex Ferguson], among the greatest of all-time.

Most of the nations around the world are led by tyrants and dictators and thugs who are leading their countries for one reason.

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.

For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.