If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

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.

What every girl dreams of when she's dumped is - that the guy will someday feel regrest and come back and tell her all about it. And the beauty of it is you have no regrets whatsoever.

Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.

Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache

No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.

What do I do? (Jeff) Well, not to insult a man who looks like a rocket scientist in comparison to you, but…run, Forrest, run. (Rafael)

The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.