It is important to combine structural reforms and good fiscal stewardship with a growth strategy, because when your economy's growing and more revenue's coming in, that helps relieve debt.

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.

You'll only beat your fears once you get to the point where you care more about your purpose than what people think of you.

Let us take birth in our immortality courageously, the way lion walks in the forest roaring.Let us live the way the tiger looks for its prey, to search the Supreme Power in our godliness.

In the end, bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren't divisible.

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?

One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.

A lot of the post-1977 dancefloor disco sounds had their place at one time, but you can't bring them back unless you bring back a floor.

That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

In order to stay out of trouble I worked in industry. You can't even do that nowadays; there were all those factories.

He simply contemplated human realities from a divine perspective.

So finally, I decided that the best response — the safest — was none at all.