In the wealthiest nation on Earth – no illness or accident should lead to any family’s financial ruin.

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.

There is NO way you're living out your purpose if you're conforming to the rules. There is NO way you'll fulfill your destiny if you're trapped in the dogma of what other people think.

People get addicted to feeling offended all the time because it gives them a high

You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

There is no journalist without opinions, and there's no real objectivity, but we can strive toward it.

I do like sci-fi. When I was a kid, I was always sort of locked into sci-fi stories. So, sci-fi has always had a special place in my heart.

Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick.

Marriage the happiest bond of love might be, If hands were only joined when hearts agree.

I think Newt Gingrich has a proven track record of changing Washington and getting results.

If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.