I think it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people.

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.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a middle-of-the-road moderate and the rest of you are crazy.

Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.

When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.

Eureka, Eureka! (I found it, I found it!).

No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament.

Let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the information of others.

What if I were Romeo in black jeans?

He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.

I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient.