If you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we've got a different definition of leadership.

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.

Sit Down - What to do if a parent wants to get their child's attention.

Please open please if there's any justice in this world.

In those days great teachers at Shortridge [High School] were celebrities. I would look up to them.

I do not need someone to complete me, but if you wanted to, we could walk next to each other into whatever is coming next.

Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.

You can't live up to what people expect. Nobody can. But I guess that's my problem, not theirs.

It should be fun introducing kids to fruits and vegetables. If you start young, it will be something that they'll attach to really quickly.

If you watch the news, you see politicians use human vulnerabilities to get in and earn people's trust.

I would not invest in any shoe that is too trendy.

You are a stranger, I am a stranger, we all remain strangers, and nevertheless we can like or even love each other.