I want to make sure that we, as a nation, stay unified because that's how we're going to achieve our missions.

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.

Your heart has a deeper intelligence than your mind ever will.

Follow your heart even if she is wrong, because only few dares to do that.

Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.

Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

Humility doesn't mean hiding in the corner and pretending you are not strong. Humility means to be what you are.

Don't just sit there (and complain), do something.

There's often an assumption you're more privileged if you belong to a family with people who have made a success.

Listening means forgetting yourself completely - only then can you listen.

Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?