I'm going to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great.

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.

Changing one's personality is as simple as stopping the earth's rotation

Pain and suffering are inevitable in our lives, but misery is an option

Doing good holds the power to transform us on the inside, and then ripple out in ever-expanding circles that positively impact the world at large.

I love who I am. I love what I've become.

I love to entertain an audience.

It's important to keep auditioning. If you're auditioning for something, you're auditioning for a role that people can't see you in and you need to convince them that you're the right person.

I'm not looking and I don't go hunting. I'm the type who's got to be found.

He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

If you don't encounter setbacks in your career, if you don't have doubts and disappointments , let me tell you, you're not dreaming big enough.

I'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in.