In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me.

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.

If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

There is no fact or fiction, only imagined truths.

... And if Europe gives Arabia a railway, Arabia gives Europe an idea - which I think balances the account.

Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

People have accused me at times of having too big of a heart.But I have to also to say I must keep the people of my state safe. So we take a pause [in taking refugees].

Come on, let's go. Crazy people do crazy things.

I'm pathetic when it comes to the Internet and getting stuff done.

You play the golf course just like you played it in your practice rounds and you stick to your game plan and just try to get whatever you can out of it.