I'm not just a candidate, I'm the President

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.

May God grant children who will fear and revered Him.

To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.

The simple intention to surrender control is all you need to experience miracles.

It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.

Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it's no big deal, when really all I was doing was hoping I'd have the success they had.

If you're looking where everybody else is looking, you're looking in the wrong spot.

Many people consider darts a sport, with a live audience and very excited fans and competitors who aren't hitting the bull's-eye.

Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet.