I think [ unpopular presidential candidates ] indicates, at least on the Democratic side, that we've got more work to do to strengthen our grassroots networks.

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.

People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places.

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.

As a devil's advocate Mr Neville was faultless. And yet, she knew, there was a flaw in his reasoning, just as there was a flaw in his ability to feel.

Day and night, their frail and crippled ships defy the tempest.

I'm impressed with a 90 year old woman who's still out and about.

Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.

we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed

You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.

One can look at John McCain and say that he's not ready to be commander-in-chief.